Democratic lawmakers have released a second draft of the 20-district map for Chicago’s impending elected school board, after the first map was criticized for failing to maintain neighborhood cohesion and over-representing white voters.
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In the earlier version of the map, whites made up the largest group of voting-age residents in seven of the 20 proposed districts, while another seven districts had a plurality of Black voters, and the remaining six were majority-Latino. Yet at a Senate hearing Thursday evening, Latino leaders expressed frustration that they were underrepresented and that their communities were not kept intact. Chicago Ald. Nicole Lee, who represents the city’s first majority-Asian 11th Ward, asked for more time for members of the public to voice their concerns, including Asian Americans. There is only one district where more than 20% of the voting population is Asian American.
With just a few days left in the session as the calendar currently stands, though, it’s unclear if the General Assembly plans to settle on the existing map or a different version before lawmakers adjourn or if lawmakers plan to come back to agree on the map at a later date.
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