The proposed map would create 16 Black-majority and 14 Latino-majority wards, sources said, one less than the Latino Caucus wanted.
Enough Chicago aldermen are in agreement on a new map of the city’s 50 wards that they will avoid a ballot referendum next month that would have let voters choose from between competing maps, sources said Monday.
But the People’s Coalition, whose map was backed by the Latino Caucus, put out a statement late Monday calling the proposed deal “highly gerrymandered.” The once-per-decade fight had grown increasingly bitter as the deadline approached, but in the end, Latino aldermen who had been holding out started making deals to join the 35 aldermen who backed a map constructed by the council Rules Committee and favored by most of the council’s Black Caucus.
In the latest twist, the Latino Caucus hoped to get the council last month to suspend its rules and for a majority of aldermen to pass either their map or the one backed by the Black Caucus and others. Doing so would have allowed the Latino Caucus to then amend its map for the June referendum in order to reflect changes it agreed to this year with the good government groups, including CHANGE Illinois.
Various Latino aldermen began negotiating deals to tweak their ward boundaries in the Rules Committee map and join in supporting that one, with Northwest Side Ald. Felix Cardona, 31st, recently announcing he had done so.
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