Members of the City Council’s Black Caucus and supporters of the deal reached earlier this week spent the majority of Friday’s meeting of the Rules Committee congratulating each other.
The Chicago City Council is set to vote Monday on a new ward map based on the 2020 census that will shape Chicago politics for the next decade, keeping Black politicians’ advantage at City Hall intact.Members of the City Council’s Black Caucus and supporters of the deal reached earlier this week spent the majority of Friday’s meeting of the Rules Committee congratulating each other on reaching a deal that will likely avert what would have been the first ward map referendum in 30 years.
If approved at a special City Council meeting set for 11:30 a.m. Monday, the map will be the second major piece of legislation that would have failed to pass without the support of some of the City Council’s most progressive members, including those who are members of the Chicago chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.only passed in October with the backing of progressive City Council members
Ald. Sophia King , a member of the City Council’s Black Caucus, was one of several people to praise Rules Committee Chair Ald. Michelle Harris , for presiding over the redistricting effort and getting a deal done.The map also creates a new 11th Ward with a majority of Asian American voters centered around Chinatown — the first in Chicago’s history.Always fraught, this year’s remapping effort was particularly tense because of the city’s changing racial makeup.
State law requires Chicago wards to be “nearly equal as practicable” while being as “contiguous” and “compact” as possible while complying with the Voting Rights Act, which is designed to protect the voting rights of Black, Latino and Asian residents. The chair of the Latino Caucus, Villegas led the unsuccessful effort to draw a map with 15 wards that are home to a majority of Latino voters while running for Congress.
Lopez endorsed the map crafted by the Latino Caucus, as did Ald. Brian Hopkins, who would see the Lincoln Yards megadevelopment moved from his North Side ward to Ald. Scott Waguespack’s 32nd Ward.
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