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Congressional candidates won't face delay on signature-gathering

August 27, 2011
Chicago Tribune

U.S. judge allows petition-passing to begin next month despite remap challenge

By Rick Pearson, Tribune reporter

Illinois congressional candidates can start collecting signatures after Labor Day to get on next year's ballot, and the signatures will count even if a Republican lawsuit challenging the new, Democrat-drawn district boundaries succeeds in changing them, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.

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Democrats protect their own in state legislative remap

August 9, 2011
Chicago Tribune

By Ray Long, Tribune reporter

SPRINGFIELD ——
Jonathan Goldman was encouraged when Democrats first unveiled new state legislative boundaries in mid-May. The Bucktown resident's house was inside Sen. Annazette Collins' district, giving him a clean shot at a Democratic primary election challenge next year.

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Remap took aim at Obama a decade ago

August 9, 2011
Chicago Tribune

Move seen as political payback after then-state senator lost a primary challenge against Rush

Playing around with district borders offers politicians a way to get a little payback.

A decade ago, it happened to Barack Obama. Back then, Obama was a state senator who had just challenged — and gotten thumped by — U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush in the 2000 Democratic primary.

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Illinois GOP leaders sue over Dems’ new district map: ‘They should be ashamed’

July 20, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Dave McKinney

The General Assembly’s top two Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to undo the set of House and Senate boundaries that Gov. Pat Quinn approved that could give Democrats a decade-long legislative stranglehold.

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Illinois Republicans sue over Democrat-drawn remap

July 20, 2011
Chicago Tribune

 By Rick Pearson

The state’s top Republican legislative leaders today led the filing of a federal lawsuit challenging a Democratic-drawn remapping of the state’s House and Senate districts, alleging it unfairly discriminates against African Americans and Latinos.

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Chicago's ward remap begins with everyone on alert

July 14, 2011
Chicago Tribune

 By Hal Dardick and Kristen Mack

As City Council heavyweights prepare to redraw ward boundaries in a once-a-decade exercise that will reshape Chicago's political landscape, a group of independent-minded aldermen is raising money to pay for its own high-tech map room.

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How to stop the next Blagojevich (Editorial)

July 2, 2011
Chicago Tribune

It was bleeping golden, and a whole lot more. Jurors who convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of 17 corruption counts said they might have fallen for his denials if not for the taped conversations secretly recorded by federal prosecutors.

"I was one where I felt he was not guilty on several counts," one juror explained. "But, lo and behold, we would go back through the tapes and there it was."

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City population loss, race issue make council remap tricky

July 6, 2011
Chicago Tribune

 By John Byrne and Hal Dardick

Veteran Ald. Richard Mell laid out the basics of redrawing the lines of Chicago’s 50 wards on Wednesday, saying this go-around will be the most challenging in recent memory.

Two of the biggest challenges involve race: The city’s African-American population dropped by more than 181,000, while the city’s Latino population grew by about 25,000 according to last year’s federal census.

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Redistricting Was Done, but Certainty Is Lacking

July 7, 2011
New York Times

 By Ross Ramsey

In a sort of legislative miracle, Texas lawmakers actually finished their redistricting work this year, drawing new political maps for Congress, the Texas House and Senate, and for the State Board of Education. But the fight is just starting, and could last beyond next year’s elections.

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