With a deadline approaching to avoid the first Chicago ward map referendum in three decades, Latino aldermen failed this week to convince City Council colleagues to let them make changes to the ...

More than a year after Chicago aldermen thought they had settled the contentious issue of redrawing the city’s 50 ward boundaries, the new map they approved is facing a challenge in federal ...

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 ...

The remap comes at a critical juncture in Chicago history: The political machine dominated by the Daleys and powerful white aldermen is slipping, leaving an opening for Black and Latino council ...

Rules Committee Chair Michelle Harris (8th) has invited Latino Caucus leaders to a meeting at 10 a.m. Sunday in a last-ditch effort to resolve differences standing in the way of a new ward map.

The next map is from 1921. Chicago has grown larger in land area, and the 2.7 million population is comparable to today. We now have the familiar 50 wards, with one alderman each. Chicago has a ...

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 ...

Showdown vote on Chicago ward map called off; public hearings next Ald. Michelle Harris, chairwoman of the City Council’s Rules Committee, said delaying a vote will allow to public input while ...

As Chicago aldermen get down to redrawing the 50 wards, an independent group releases its latest map and City Council factions jockey for support in the battle to survive.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new Chicago ward map was introduced to City Council Wednesday, but no vote was taken. The Black and Latino caucuses are not in agreement over the new boundaries.

And Villegas, who calls the new map gerrymandering “at its worst,” told WTTW’s Paris Schuz, this “will be the last time” he talks about the remap moving forward.