The latest U.S. Census Bureau data has the American population growing at a little less than one percent for 2015. Bloomberg has a map here illustrating the data. A little less than half the growth is from immigration to the United States.

The growth isn’t evenly distributed, and a couple of states stand out like big, red sore thumbs. Illinois and West Virginia both saw population declines (along with a few other states to a much smaller degree) for the 12 months measured.

The biggest loser in the latest demographic analysis is the city of Chicago. Of all the metropolitan areas that lost population in the last year, it lost the most—more than the greater Los Angeles area, more than Boston, more than Minneapolis.

Illinois lawmakers’ budget fight is delaying parts of a new election law. That’s leading officials to warn of long lines, fewer safeguards against voter fraud and other costly headaches in November.

Democrats pushed the bill through the Legislature in an effort to increase voter turnout in time for the presidential election and a key U.S. Senate race.

It requires several changes that have traditionally been seen as benefiting Democrats, such as same-day voter registration and expanded early voting.

Kristin Love was 16 years old when she first tried heroin at a party. She kept her addiction a secret for six years, until a drug bust led to her arrest in a McDonald’s parking lot.

“My parents, my family, my significant other, nobody knew,” said Love, now 27. “They might have had suspicions, but nobody knew until I called them from jail.”

This experience has become all too common in Illinois. The state Criminal Justice Information Authority reports that nearly 13,000 inmates in Illinois’ prison system needed substance abuse treatment services during fiscal g2014. The Illinois State Crime Commission describes heroin use as an epidemic.

Illinois owes roughly $2.8 billion for health care coverage in its state employee group insurance program, a consequence of the stalemate that’s left the state without a budget since July.

The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that payment delays to health insurers and medical providers now average 15 months.

The delays can be attributed both to the state’s budget stalemate and to years of underfunding in the group insurance program, said Meredith Krantz of Illinois Central Management Services.