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Activist Doubek: 'There needs to be a real and meaningful dialogue between lawmakers and community groups'
CHANGE Illinois Executive Director Madeleine Doubek is convinced lawmakers in Springfield never gave themselves the chance to do the best job that could be done in redrawing the latest congressional maps.“Our first recommendation to this committee is to use the 2020 Census data as the basis for the congressional maps rather than American Community Survey (ACS) data,” Doubek said during a Senate Redistricting Committee hearing held earlier this month.
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Activist Tolley: 'There is zero ability for everyday community members to have a say in their congressional maps'
CHANGE Illinois policy director Ryan Tolley charges Democrats managed to make a bad situation even worse with their latest map redistricting effort.
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Long-Williams tells redistricting panel 'Englewood shouldn’t have five aldermen'
Vora Long-Williams wants to see order when it comes to her Englewood neighborhood’s political makeup.
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Ruiz tells redistricting panel his map 'reflects the 25th Ward’s historical boundaries'
City Council is coming together on July 26 to start the task of crafting new ward boundaries that will set the stage for Chicago politics for the next ten years.
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Kerr tells redistricting panel, 'McKinley Park deserves to be in a single ward'
Justin Kerr has been direct and to the point when it comes to expressing what he thinks his McKinley Park neighborhood should look like.
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Lapinski tells redistricting panel 'all of Hyde Park’s commercial areas should be in the same ward'
Brian Lapinski wants to see uniformity in his Hyde Park neighborhood.
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Tolley of CHANGE Illinois: 'This is not how an open and transparent process work'
In written testimony submitted to the House Redistricting Committee, CHANGE Illinois Policy Director Ryan Tolley questioned the lack of transparency of the whole procedure.