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 ...

Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images Share Friday update WASHINGTON — Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released the proposed new congressional map on Friday, with the lines drawn to yield ...

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 congressional maps shrink the state’s current 18-member congressional delegation by one seat because of Illinois’ declining population. But even with that lessened influence in Washington ...

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 ...

Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released a proposed set of new congressional district maps Friday, just days before lawmakers return to the Statehouse for the start of their fall veto ...

He has not yet signed it. The article has been corrected. The Democratic-led Illinois legislature has approved a new congressional map that seals Democrats’ political advantage in the state for ...

CHICAGO — Illinois’ new congressional district map, signed into law Tuesday, formalizes political boundaries drawn to help Democrats in next year’s midterm elections, when Republicans are ...

Illinois Democrats who control the General ... and congressional district maps said the public hearings on the congressional map attracted sparse input because hearings were held at inconvenient ...

The Illinois remapping committee posted a blatantly gerrymandered Illinois congressional map on Oct. 15. Our research group scored the map across multiple fairness metrics and found all but one ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers debated into the 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 ...