Marseilles Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says the city will get about $1,400 per person per year in state and federal funds over the next decade. So, it’s important to answer the census. He says that adds up to a lot of lost infrastructure money over the decade for everyone who doesn’t answer Census 2020.
Even gasoline tax money distributed to cities is based on the population, instead of miles of road or how much traffic goes through a city. Census data will also be used to draw political boundaries, determine how many seats Illinois has in the U.S. House, and how many electors it gets in the presidential races in 2024 and 2028.
It’s estimated that about a third of people in Marseilles and across the state haven’t turned in anything to the Census Bureau. Hollenbeck was on the Morning Meeting program on WCMY yesterday.