10. DID YOU KNOW? While known for having a relatively low poverty rate when compared with other Illinois Counties, DuPage is changing. From 1980 to 2006, our poverty rate rose 63.3%.
20. DID YOU KNOW? There are almost 66,000 homeless individuals living in DuPage county. This is a 195.72% increase in the numbers of homeless between 2001 and 2009.
44. DID YOU KNOW? Systems of Care (SOC) provides intensive services for foster children who have experienced severe abuse or neglect. Over the past two years, 8 in 10 youth in our SOC program were stabilized in their foster care placement homes.