CHICAGO (CBS) --After months of acrimonious ... and four other aldermen sought to delay the final vote on the new ward maps, but Lightfoot ruled out of order their request to "defer and publish ...

Two competing sides had both previously filed their maps to be part of a June ... support for tweaks to their individual wards. Mariah Woelfel covers Chicago politics and government for WBEZ.

The ward maps, approved by the City Council in May, must be redrawn every 10 years following the Census, according to officials. The wards will take effect following next year's municipal elections.

In decades past, maps proposed by the City Council have been adopted nearly unanimously. However, for anyone who has seen the current ward map of Chicago, it is hard to believe that it was drawn ...

Members of the Chicago City Council reached an agreement Monday on a new ward map that will expand representation for the city’s Latinx community and will avoid having to put the maps up for a ...

including Chicago’s 50 wards. “Ultimately, we want to show that this is the blueprint where people can engage in this process and still get good maps,” Van Dyk said of Change Illinois’s ...

Chicago voters might not have to weigh in on a new City Council ward map this year after a national ... to focus on the potential effects of the maps on the city’s growing and increasingly ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to take the power of drawing ward maps away from the City Council ... Before the advent of computer-assisted mapping, Chicago’s wards were much more regularly shaped.

CHICAGO — Enough Chicago aldermen ... have let voters choose from between competing maps, sources said Monday. The proposed map will create 16 wards with Black majorities and 14 with Latino ...

CHICAGO (CBS ... a Dec. 1 deadline to pass a new map of all 50 wards based on 2020 Census data, opening the door to having two or more maps placed on the ballot next year for voters to decide.

I was in a pretty good mood when I woke up yesterday morning, but then I opened my Sun-Times and read that the aldermen are squabbling over the ward map. Aw, shit—here we go again, to quote the ...

The city of Chicago lost 85,000 black residents ... the electoral results of different maps. Now they can create projections for any hypothetical ward almost instantly. Members worry about any ...