The Mayor’s Office established the City of Chicago’s Complete Count Committee to ensure every resident is accounted for in the 2020 U.S. Census. The committee is tasked with creating a strategy to ensure an accurate and complete count of Chicago’s population with a particular focus on hard-to-count populations, including African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, immigrants and non-native English speakers, homeless individuals, children under age five and the elderly. In Chicago, 34 percent of households did not mail back their 2010 Census questionnaire, and therefore required the Census Bureau to conduct an in-person follow-up. An initial steering committee of 27 members will work to analyze previous census data and recommend strategies to ensure a full count when the census begins on April 1, 2020. This group is expected to grow over the following year to ensure robust advocacy toward a fair and accurate count, as well as the protection of residents. To lead this effort, Mayor Emanuel has named six committee co-chairs: 

• Ric Estrada, CEO of Metropolitan Family Services 

• Rebecca Shi, Executive Director of Business Immigration Coalition 

• Andrea Zopp, President and CEO of World Business Chicago 

• Alderman Carrie Austin, Chairman of Committee on Budget and Government Operations

• Alderman Roderick Sawyer, Chairman of the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus

• Alderman Gilbert Villegas, Chairman of the Chicago City Council Latino Caucus 

Anyone interested in applying for jobs with the Census Bureau can go to www.2020census.gov/jobs.