CHICAGO (CBS) --After months of acrimonious fighting over the future boundaries of the city's 50 wards, the City Council on Monday approved a new ward map that will avoid having voters choose ...

known as the Chicago United Map, that includes 17 Black-majority or plurality wards, 14 Latino-majority wards and the city’s first-ever Asian American-majority ward, which will be centered ...

“The Chicago United map represents coalitions and compromise ... Rules Committee has endorsed creates 16 Black-majority wards, 14 Latino wards and an additional ward with a Black plurality.

Villegas chairs the Latino Caucus, which wanted 15 Latino-majority wards, but the proposed compromise map has 14. As various Latino ... it’s our job to represent Chicago. Democracy is sometimes ...

The compromise map, which Alderwoman Michelle Harris calls the "Chicago United Map," would create 17 Black-majority wards, 14 Latino-majority wards and one Asian-American majority ward.

An overwhelming majority of Chicago aldermen have approved ... create 16 majority-Black wards, 14 majority-Latino wards and one majority-Asian ward. That map is closest to the version that ...

Before the advent of computer-assisted mapping, Chicago’s wards were much more regularly shaped. Here's a comparison of the ward map in place ... be thanks to the 14th Ward, where he managed ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share A deal has been struck on a new Chicago City Council ... Council vote next week, the map will create 16 Black majority wards and 14 Latino majority wards, according ...

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 ...

Census records from 2010 show that 2.6 million people live in Chicago, putting 53,912 people in each of the city's 50 aldermanic wards. Scheduled to take effect in 2015, the new map drew a legal ...

said the Latino Caucus has every right to pursue the referendum option one day after the Rules Committee unveiled its own proposed boundaries for Chicago’s 50 wards. That map has 14 majority ...

On a local level, Chicago’s 50-part ward map is drawn by a group of City Council ... Feng and her colleagues settled on a bipartisan group of 14 who spent the next year holding public hearings ...