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New legislative maps for the Illinois House and Senate would unfairly deny minority voters and other citizens their ability to influence elections, Republican leaders in the General Assembly say in a federal lawsuit challenging the maps.
House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, and Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, filed the widely expected lawsuit Wednesday in Chicago with the Eastern Division of the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of Illinois.
If successful, leaders of Republicans in chambers where Democrats hold super-majorities could see a court transfer redistricting authority from the legislature to a bipartisan commission that would give Republicans a 50-50 chance of controlling the once-every-10-years remap process.