A 2010 Census outreach event in July of 2010. New Census data will be released tomorrow which could result in fewer legislative seats for Missouri and Illinois. (Flickr Creative Commons User jennaddenda)
New 2010 U.S. Census figures will be released tomorrow. And that could be bad news for the St. Louis region.
Some experts say the state is just shy of the population it would need to retain all nine of its seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Washington University political science professor Steven Smith says it would be "a substantial loss" for Missouri's influence on Capitol Hill.
A vacant and abandoned home in St. Louis. According to U.S. Census data released Tuesday, St. Louis has the second-highest home vacancy rate among major cities in the U.S.