BREAKING: The Chicago City Council has adopted a new map of the city’s 50 wards, forestalling a ballot referendum.
The Chicago City Council adopted a new map of the city’s 50 wards Monday, forestalling a ballot referendum on competing designs by Black and Latino aldermen and their allies and ending a racially charged confrontation over the boundaries between the two groups.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and many aldermen in recent days have said the council compromising is a better outcome than the referendum, and they hope the body can move past the months of acrimony.The map that passed has 16 Black-majority wards and 14 Latino-majority wards, one fewer Latino ward than the Latino Caucus wanted in light of Latino population gains citywide. It also includes Chicago’s first Asian-majority ward.
But while it got support from the overwhelming majority of aldermen, the new map is not universally loved. That drew an angry rebuke from Black Caucus Chair Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, who said Beale walked away from his Black Caucus colleagues during the map design process. Beale demanded an apology, which was not forthcoming from Ervin during the debate.Advertisement
One criticism of the new map is that it breaks up the South Side Englewood neighborhood in multiple wards. Harris said whichever alderman holds the seat in that “’really long ward, you can be really creative in how you serve your ward. You can have remote locations where you’re there multiple times in a month.”
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