Get Counted and Help the Count

Since 1790, the US has been gathering data about the characteristics of our population through the national census to guide policy, legislative, and fiscal decision making. This year, in 2020, the US Census Bureau will once again take on the huge task of updating the decennial census database. The accuracy of this information is critical to the work of Friends of the Chicago River and our environmental partners, who work every day to improve our watershed for people, plants, and wildlife.

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New Lobbying Regulations Reduce Voices

Friends of the Chicago River, along with many of its nonprofit partners and colleagues, appear to be the baby in the bathwater these days. New efforts to scrub corruption from the public system include classifying nonprofits as lobbyists, putting them under rules and regulations that result in reducing the outside, alternative voices that organizations such as Friends provide.

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