CHICAGO —Illinois may not be losing population after all. An undercount in the 2020 census missed 46,400 Illinois residents living in group homes, an adjustment to the population base that will be incorporated in future surveys, the state announced Wednesday. While the total won’t be added retroactively to previously reported census data, the bolstered base may more than offset the nearly 33,000 people Illinois lost in the 2023 annual census update published last month. “I’m pleased that the Census Bureau has recognized the undercounting that I and many members of Illinois’ congressional deleg…
