Tag: population decrease

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Guess Who Made the Shrinking Cities List?

By: Diane Benjamin People around the country will see this report and believe it. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/08/18/these-are-americas-19-fastest-shrinking-big-cities/?amp=1 3 of the top 19 shrinking big cities are in Illinois: Danville, Champaign-Urbana, and Bloomington. They don’t really mean Bloomington however, they have to mean McLean County. Page all the way down to #7 The census bureau only shows an […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Fleeing Illinois

https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-in-the-midwest-americans-are-fleeing Excerpt: Using data from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates program, we found the metropolitan areas located in the Midwestern states with the most negative net migration between 2010 and 2018, adjusted by the size of the 2010 metro area population. The article recaps the top 20 Midwest cities losing population: Danville is #1 Decatur is #2 Rockford […]