The Illinois Legislature worked past its midnight deadline to approve a $42 billion state budget early Tuesday. The budget was based on tax revenue sources
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May 29, 2021 | 3:33 PM
Democrats in the General Assembly passed new legislative and state Supreme Court maps Friday night and now House Republicans are asking Governor JB Pritzker to veto the maps.
Pritzker long promised to veto any gerrymandered maps, including earlier this year. On the campaign trail in 2018, Pritzker supported an amendment to Illinois’ constitution to take the redistricting process out of state legislators’ hands and instead send it to an independent commission.
But the governor recently flip-flopped on the veto promise, saying he trusted lawmakers to create a fair map.
State Representative Dan Brady (R-Normal) says Governor Pritzker needs to live up to candidate Prizker’s promise.
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SPRINGFIELD Following Republican complaints and public testimony, Democrats went back to the drawing board, releasing newly proposed state legislative maps late Thursday calling them a “product our state can be proud of.”
But GOP legislators said any claims that their concerns have been taken into account were “deceptive and downright untrue.”
Democrats also released new boundaries for the three-member Cook County Board of Review Thursday night. That board allows residents to appeal their property assessments.
After hours of hearings this week in which legislators were told to reverse course on maps released a week ago, Democrats released a redistricting redo that they said reflects “testimony provided the last couple of days from members of the public’’ as well as “concerns raised by Republicans.”