Mayor announces plan to ensure every Chicagoan is counted in census 2000

Mayor announces plan to ensure every Chicagoan is counted in census 2000

Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced a comprehensive plan to make sure every Chicago resident is counted in the 2000 Census, so that Chicago will get all the population-based state and federal assistance it's entitled.

"In the 1990 Census, we are certain that Chicago was undercounted by at least 159,000 residents," the Mayor said at a news conference at the Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St., in one of the Chicago communities that suffered most from the undercount.

"Because of that, we estimate that the city lost more than $200 million in state and federal aid that is distributed on the basis …