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Per city code, each ward elects two aldermen to the City Council. However, the map change does mean that two currently elected City Council members, Mike Bruno and Robert Swanson, will move wards.
The new map, which sets the boundaries for Chicago's 50 wards for the next 10 years, has 14 Latino majority wards, 16 Black majority wards, one Black plurality ward, and the city's first-ever ...
If 41 aldermen vote to approve a new ward map for the city before next year's primary elections, the voter referendum triggered by the Latino Caucus would be canceled, ...
The Aurora City Council must vote again on a new ward map for the city. While aldermen, after weeks of discussion, adopted a new map earlier this week, it turns out a last-minute amendment took ...
The city ward commission argues in its motion that claims by the group, known as Jersey City United Against the New Ward Map, are “supported by nothing more than bald allegations.
Evanston is now seeking community feedback on the latest draft of the city’s ward map. The city began its redistricting process in December 2021 to determine a new ward map based on the 2020 census.
Jason Orlando, the attorney for the seven-member ward commission, defended how the commission established the new map that moved several developments out of Bergen-Lafayette, a decision that the ...
When the map was finally approved in 2015, more than a year after council first discussed doing so, the populations in the ward ranged from 7,227 to 12,130, a difference of more than 40 percent ...
After a protracted redistricting process, the Chicago City Council settled on a new 50-ward map last year that reflects current demographics: 18 majority- or plurality-white wards, 17 majority- or ...
The first three drafts of a new ward map sought to address the concerns. “We know Rochester has about 28% BIPOC community members, so these maps do concentrate a little bit higher for ward 4 and ...
In 2001, the city ward map looked much the same as it did 10 years later. The population from the 2000 census put Cape Girardeau at just under 36,000 residents. Recent census data puts the city at ...
BEREA, Ohio -- City Council approved a new ward map at a special Nov. 28 meeting, ahead of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections deadline. The Berea charter requires a ward review every 10 years ...