Illinois Democrats delivered Thursday, using their dominance in state government to advance new congressional district maps intended ... nothing could get done in Congress. Democrats in some ...

Illinois lost a seat in Congress in the census’s reapportionment based on population gains. The current 18-member delegation is 13 Democrats and five Republicans. The new map adds an additional ...

Two earlier drafts of Illinois’ congressional maps had Newman inside U.S. Rep ... The U.S. Constitution doesn’t require those running for Congress live within their districts, but it ...

What’s important is this: Illinois state Democrats drafted a map to maximize the election of Democrats to Congress. The Chicago Sun-Times has learned the new congressional map, based on the 2020 ...

The new map was criticized by Republicans for what they considered Democrats’ efforts to reduce the number of Illinois Republicans in Congress from five to three. GOP lawmakers say Illinois ...

Illinois' congressional delegation is made up ... At hearings for the congressional maps, representatives of the League of Women Voters called the process for drawing both maps "lacking" in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Senate passed the proposed congressional map 41 to 18 on Thursday night. The proposal will head to the Illinois House of Representatives. The proposed ...

Unlike past Congress people who represented the county ... Looking at the proposed final map of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts, Chicago-based candidates are spreading out and into Lake ...

which grades congressional maps on partisan fairness, geographical compactness, and other factors. Democrats in Illinois are concentrated in Chicago, its suburbs, and a handful of other places ...

End of carousel To keep his job in Congress, Davis had to square off ... a nonpartisan group that studies the issue nationally, gave the Illinois map an “F” rating and classified none of ...