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 ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The MyDistrict Chicago software allows ... or focus on a particular area or ward. The software also checks completed maps against that census data to make ...

READ MORE: Redrawing Chicago wards map sets off battle between Black ... The Black Caucus then presented its own regional maps, from which they wanted 17 Black wards and 14 Latino wards drawn.

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 ...

The 11 th Ward is now 41% Asian ... votes automatically triggers a referendum that would allow Chicago voters to choose among rival maps. “Twenty years ago, it cost $40 million to do a map.

Chicago aldermen are finally starting to get serious about the process of remapping the city’s 50 wards, with computers ... to decide between competing maps in a referendum.

The fight for survival at the core of decennial reapportionment yields butt-ugly maps designed solely with special interests and connected incumbents in mind. That said, the new Chicago ward map ...