That map has not been voted on by the full council, and an alternative map, crafted by the Latino Caucus, has been altered based on input from CHANGE Illinois, which had created an independent ...

The March 9 announcement launched a new effort by CHANGE Illinois, a nonprofit focusing on fair and effective elections, to create an alternate Chicago ward map.

Several discussions about the maps and trading off neighborhoods emerged among council members in the last several weeks, Ward 6 Ald. Kristin DiCenso acknowledged. The practice is not new.

The Aurora City Council must vote again on a new ward map for the city. While aldermen, after weeks of discussion, adopted a new map earlier this week, it turns out a last-minute amendment took ...

Evanston residents got their first look at a draft of the proposed new ward map with minimal adjustments during the April 10 City Council meeting. City Councilmember and Chair of the Redistricting ...

Suspending the City Council’s rules to allow the Latino Caucus to substitute and place before Chicago voters a revised map negotiated with CHANGE Illinois would set a “dangerous precedent ...

Happy Tuesday, Illinois. It’s Midterm Super Tuesday. Here’s what’s at stake, via POLITICO’s Steven Shepard. Hard feelings were in plain sight yesterday as Chicago City Council members ...

Currently, the council has 20 Black members, 12 Latino and 18 who are white, despite a ward map that was drawn in 2010 with 13 wards with a majority of Latino voters and 18 with a majority of ...

The latest map proposed by the Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission—an independent group led by good-government organization Change Illinois—is the only one being publicly floated so far.

Wards 1, 8, 9 and 10 gained population. Ward 10 added 1,954 people. Berns said it is fairly easy to look at a map of the city "and see where the new development is, so obviously that's where the ...