Chicago Magazine
January 29, 2015
From Chicago Magazine:
The counties with the highest rates of poverty tend to be the ones where Pat Quinn lost—and where Bruce Rauner will need to tread carefully while cutting government spending.
The Heartland Alliance just released its annual report on poverty. The biggest news is bad: The state poverty rate, as of 2013, reached levels the state hasn’t seen since 1960.
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Here’s how that poverty is distributed (deeper red means higher percentage of the population in poverty):
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