Chicago City Council members approve a new ward map for 2023, but not everyone is happy. We break down what’s changed and what hasn’t in a special LatinoVoicesWTTW BlackVoicesWTTW crossover conversation.
Mayor, Lori Lightfoot banged the gavel this week on a vote to approve a new ward map to take effect in 2023 on the question of the redistricting map for the next decade. The 43-7 vote map was enough to dodge a referendum, but some community organizations are saying the new map reflects the same old problems: no input from residents, neighborhoods carved up across ward boundaries, and borders drawn to punish political rivals.vice president Alma Krueser.
“I served on the good governance committee for Lightfoot’s transition and this was one of the issues that we brought up, about the transparency with the remapping and to me it just seems like it was kind of the same,” Butler said. “It does leave one to wonder, what caused you to decide to go against everything that you stood for in regards to transparency and community engagement in the mapping process?” van Dyk said. “Obviously this wasn’t about communities … and specifically we see the same things happening in communities that significantly engaged with the commission?”member Juan Morado Jr.
Van Dyk agreed that even more engagement with residents is needed to push back on business as usual in City Council.
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