“The City of Chicago broadly defines “food desert” residents as all Chicagoans living in a census block located more than a mile from a retail food establishment licensee with a business location larger than 10,000 square feet, and also has developed other useful measures of food access” (Mayor Emanuel Announces Release of Food Desert Data and New Interactive Efforts to Combat Food Deserts in Chicago (City of Chicago ::). The issue to food dessert has to do with the census and if people don’t do the application that could affect the community and future generations. The census is amount of money that a community gets by having information on how many people live in the area. The census is every 10 years so if not many people fill it out we won’t get the money that’s needed to better improve our community by having more resources. Well this topic happens every 10 years; this information goes into food dessert. Food dessert is a serious problem in Little Village because in every block there are at least one or two fast food restaurants. Yes we have multiple grocery stores on every other corner, but they are little businesses that tax a lot. “Bringing grocery stores to neighborhoods with the highest level of need remains a priority for the City of Chicago” ( Mayor Emanuel Announces Release of Food Desert Data and New Interactive Efforts to Combat Food Deserts in Chicago (City of Chicago ::). I as an individual don’t want a grocery store because that’s not something that other wealthier or high class neighborhoods have. They at least have big grocery stores a mile away. As for little village we have “Relatively uncommon businesses, such as bridal shops, bakeries, iron works product stores, and factories were sampled at a rate of 100 percent. Relatively abundant enterprises, like restaurants, bars, auto repair shops, and hair salons were sampled at a rate of 35 percent” (OPR Data Archive).