165.3: Fact Checking the Fact Check

In an effort to be completely transparent, we made a mistake. We don’t want to spread misinformation, so we threw this one more quickly to clarify that.

The facts on the Chicago population were taken from the MicroTrends:

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22956/chicago/population

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UPDATE:

The stats given during this episode were for the Chicago Metropolitan area. Since we were talking about the city of Chicago specifically, a more accurate set of stats can be found at:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/chicagocityillinois
https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/chicago-illinois

There is a big drop of 45,175 between 2021 and 2020
2021 – 2,696,555
2020 – 2,741,730
1950 – 3,620,962

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