The City Council approved today, 41-8, a new map of Chicago’s 50
wards, just clearing the threshold to avoid a public referendum on competing maps. But after months of deliberate
public hearings and also closed-door meetings between aldermen, the
final compromise map could still face legal action.
"We will see what happens after all the lawsuits are filed," Ald. Nick Sposato, whose 36th ward becomes majority Hispanic under the map, told Progress Illinois. Sposato voted against the map today.
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