JUST IN: Members of the Chicago City Council have reached a tentative compromise over a new ward map. The agreement creates 14 Latino-majority wards, rather than the 15 that the City Council’s Latino Caucus wanted.
Members of the Chicago City Council have reached a tentative compromise over a new ward map based on the 2020 census that will shape Chicago politics for the next decade, keeping Black politicians’ advantage at City Hall intact.The agreement creates 14 wards with a majority of Latino voters, rather than the 15 wards that the City Council’s Latino Caucus had demanded.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas , the chair of the Latino Caucus, told WTTW News the tentative agreement had been reached over his objections, even as he pushed for a compromise before the May 19 deadline for 41 alderpeople to approve a map. The current ward map has 18 wards with a majority of Black voters and 13 wards with a majority of Latino voters. The proposed map would unite all of Chinatown for the first time in Chicago’s history to create a ward with a majority of Asian American voters.
A statement from the campaign in support of the map backed by the Latino Caucus said the deal means that “Latinos lost for the second decade in a row.”
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