Chicagoans weigh in on the shapes and constituencies of their new ward map

Chicago aldermen approved the map Monday, narrowly avoiding a deadline that would have allowed voters to decide on boundaries themselves.

By Char Daston
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A newly created ward map appears to have enough support in the Chicago City Council to avoid forcing a public referendum on the new boundaries. Anthony Vazquez / Chicago Sun-Times
city hall
A newly created ward map appears to have enough support in the Chicago City Council to avoid forcing a public referendum on the new boundaries. Anthony Vazquez / Chicago Sun-Times

Chicagoans weigh in on the shapes and constituencies of their new ward map

Chicago aldermen approved the map Monday, narrowly avoiding a deadline that would have allowed voters to decide on boundaries themselves.

By Char Daston
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Chicago’s City Council voted 43-7 on Monday to pass a controversial new ward map, which splits up communities like Englewood into spaghetti-like slivers. Some of the members who opposed the plan were hoping for more Latino-majority wards. The new map contains 16 majority-Black wards, 14 majority-Latino wards and the city’s first majority-Asian ward.

Reset gets the details on the approved map and takes calls from listeners for their thoughts.

GUEST: Mariah Woelfel, WBEZ city government reporter