Congressional redistricting plan clears General Assembly
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers gave final approval in the early hours of Friday morning to a new congressional redistricting plan that divides the state into 17 districts, one fewer than it currently has due to its loss of population since the 2010 U.S. Census.
It was the fourth draft plan that legislative Democrats had proposed over the previous two weeks, and it was introduced to the public after 7 p.m.
Like earlier versions, it collapses two southern Illinois districts into a single district while carving up much of downstate Illinois into a number of oddly-shaped districts that put cities as far apart as East St. Louis and Champaign into one district, with Bloomington and Rockford linked in another.
“This will be the most gerrymandered map in the country,” Sen. Don DeWitte, R-St. Charles, said during floor debate. “And this process will be used as the poster child for why politicians should never be allowed to draw their own maps.”
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Democrats introduced the final congressional map that passed the General Assembly after 7 p.m. Thursday, giving it final approval in the early hours of Friday morning.
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I just wish they would have done a better job with the map. Especially the Chicago area, which is indecipherable. I see this is from a Springfield paper. I guess the way the Chicago suburbs are districted is not considered very important down there. 
It really is incredibly gerrymandered. That yellow strip running from Champaign to the St. Louis area is weird. So is the green one that runs from Galena to Rockford and then zigzags all over northern and central Illinois. And a whole bunch of others. Hmm....
