{"id":17801,"date":"2020-07-09T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2020-07-09T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:20:47","slug":"participate-in-the-census-challenge-each-person-counts-as-1400-in-federal-aid-to-our-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=17801","title":{"rendered":"Participate in the Census Challenge &#8211; Each person counts as $1400 in federal aid to our city!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17802 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cenus-Challenge-1022x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"681\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Lightfoot is calling on all Chicagoans to participate in a Census Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The ward that delivers the highest census response rate in the next 10 days will receive a ward-wide Ice Cream event! Take the census today\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my2020census.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My2020census.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember each person counted is worth $1400 in federal aid to our city &#8211; billions of dollars are at stake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>River North is part of three Wards: \u00a0Ward 42 (Alderman Brendan Reilly), Ward 27 (Alderman Walter Burnette Jr), and Ward 02 (Alderman Brian Hopkins).<\/p>\n<p>Not sure of your Ward? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/iframe\/lookup_ward_and_alderman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Lightfoot is calling on all Chicagoans to participate in a Census Challenge. The ward that delivers the highest census response rate in the next 10 days will receive a ward-wide Ice Cream event! Take the census today\u00a0at\u00a0My2020census.gov. Remember each person counted is worth $1400 in federal aid to our city &#8211; billions of dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}