As pandemic upends 2020 census, group turns to StreetWise vendors to reach undercounted community

Keith Hardiman needs at least $35 each day to stay at a West Humboldt Park hotel. Hardiman, 58, typically earns his living by selling the StreetWise magazine, but that has become difficult as the coronavirus pandemic has stretched into months and turned downtown into a “ghost town.” So Hardiman and other vendors are shifting to census outreach work among the homeless in Chicago. They will be …