WBEZ inspires architecture student to create ward map puzzle

Jan. 26, 2012
A puzzle of the recently passed Chicago ward map, something you'd probably see at the MCA gift shop, or perhaps made by a particularly inventive craftsman at the Renegade Craft Fair, has been making the rounds on the internet.Andrew Bayley, an architecture student at the Illinois Institute

Aldermen email constituents about the ward remap, each in their own way

Jan. 20, 2012
After a complex and controversial ward redistricting and remap process that ended in a City Council vote yesterday, some Chicago residents were sent clarifying and celebratory emails from their alderman responding to the outcome.

City Council anticipating ward map compromise--and parliamentary maneuvers

Jan. 19, 2012
The remap of Chicago's 50 wards was not quite a done deal. The Chicago City Council's rules committee met Thursday morning and they were expected to pass a compromise map.

Public sounds off on ward remap proposals

Jan. 12, 2012
Frustrated Chicagoans accused aldermen of shattering communities to protect their incumbencies at the first public hearing on the city’s ward remap process Wednesday night.At least 600 people flooded into DePaul University’s Student Center in Lincoln Park, with many forced to wait temporarily outsid