Illinois Democrats delivered Thursday, using their dominance in state government to advance new congressional district maps intended to eliminate two Republican-held districts and send more ...

LaHood said in a statement, “When I served in the Illinois State Senate, I was proud to support a Fair Maps redistricting process because Illinoisans have made it clear that they are tired of ...

The proposed plan for redrawing Illinois' congressional districts is ... and the Democrats who control the state government produced a map that is both wildly partisan and wildly gerrymandered.

Illinois’ state legislature passed a new congressional map early Friday morning that likely secures Democrats’ control of 14 of the state’s 17 congressional districts — but it also ...

This is the right thing to do. This is a fair map, and it reflects the diversity of the state of Illinois.” The House needed 71 votes to pass the measure, and two Democrats were not on that roll ...

Happy Thursday, Illinois. We were up late last night ... More on that below. The congressional map will be discussed in a public hearing today at 9 a.m. before going to a full vote later in ...

The proposed new maps reflect the fact that Illinois will have only 17 congressional districts after the 2022 elections, down from its current 18 districts, due to the state’s loss of ...

J.B. Pritzker’s expected sign-off, will set the state’s congressional map for the next decade. The new boundaries have significant consequences for downstate Illinois, which was mostly carved ...

The state’s congressional map was seen as critical not only to Democrats in Illinois, but to the party nationally given the narrow Democratic majority that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds ...

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, a nonpartisan group that studies the issue nationally, gave the Illinois map an “F” rating and classified none of the state’s 17 congressional districts ...

The shift caused Illinois to lose a congressional district and now has 17 instead of 18. With the census results, the state legislature drew new congressional maps. “Redistricting is required by the ...