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Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting more state funding. Eleven municipalities in Illinois and Iowa are the only cities in the U.S. so far to have signed agreements with the U.S. Census Bureau to recount their residents
Dubuque County was "particularly problematic," with zero Black members of any trial jury during the18-month period reviewed.
The NAACP analyzed data on racial or ethnic diversity of juries in Iowa counties with large Black or Latino populations.
60,000 or more riders could join for part or all of the way from Sioux City to Davenport for RAGBRAI's 50th anniversary, looking for 'authentic Iowa.'