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Originally Posted by iheartthed
But, in general, the a state's major city/cities tend to feel most acutely the effects of a statewide population loss.
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True, but the estimates this past decade have the losses driven more by downstate counties, especially Forgottonia and Little Egypt.
Citypopulation.de has a nice map compiling the rate of change (the arrow tab).
The "Chicago has grown" hope is that the estimates were correct on the rural counties' trends while the smaller loss in the Census entails Chicago treading water to the positive side, rather than a drop compounding the rural losses.