By Benjamin Cox on May 25, 2021 at 4:19pm
The remapping of Illinois continues to draw critics, this time for new maps of the Illinois Supreme Court.
Illinois’ Supreme Court district maps have not been redrawn since 1963. The Senate and House Redistricting Committees today released a proposed map of new Illinois Supreme Court boundaries. House and Senate Democrats say that it brings the districts into compliance with the state’s population shifts.
According to a press release today, the maps is allegedly equalizing the population and demographic shifts that have occurred in the state of Illinois over the course of the last sixty years. Currently, population fluctuates greatly between districts. According to the release’s statistics, the current Second District contains 3.2 million people, while the current Fourth and Fifth Districts contain under 1.3 million people. The map was drawn using the American Community Survey’s 5 year population estimate from 201