Members of the Chicago Black Caucus acknowledged Tuesday that negotiations over a new ward map remain deadlocked, and moved to ask Chicago voters to set the boundaries of the city’s 50 wards.
with the city clerk’s office, the likelihood grew significantly that the June 28 primary election ballot will ask voters to decide what the ward map should look like for the first time in 30 years — unless 41 alderpeople can agree on a map before May 19.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday that she would not endorse either ward map, and urged both sides to reach an agreement to avoid putting the decision in the hands of voters.
That map also serves to protect a number of the very alderpeople who helped craft its boundaries by letting them pick their own voters and punish their enemies and boosting their allies. In addition, the map backed by the Black Caucus carves out choice parts of the wards now represented by members of the City Council who are on the opposite side of the debate. For example, the revised Black Caucus map moves the former U.S. Steel manufacturing site, which could be redeveloped, from Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza’s 10th Ward to Ald. Greg Mitchell’s 7th Ward.
Since Chicago’s population in 2020 was 2,746,388 residents, each ward should have 54,928 residents, according to data presented to the Chicago City Council.
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