Chicago’s City Council passes a new ward map
The approved map creates the city’s first majority-Asian ward and avoids a public referendum where voters decide boundaries.
The approved map creates the city’s first majority-Asian ward and avoids a public referendum where voters decide boundaries.
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Demonstrations took place at Union Park, Millennium Park and in the Beverly neighborhood, as part of the national “Bans Off Our Bodies Day of Action.”
The two have name recognition on their side in the heated, four-candidate race for the newly created district.
The Illinois state representative and chairman of House Black Caucus is the third candidate to announce his ambitions to be Chicago mayor.
White, who currently sits on the 4th District Illinois Appellate Court, will fill the state Supreme Court vacancy in July.
He also announced new plans to scale capacity for Illinois abortion providers ahead of a possible surge in patients from other states.
The proposed map contains 16 majority-Black wards, 14 majority-Latino wards and Chicago’s first Asian American-majority ward.
During a visit to an Illinois farm, Biden said U.S. agricultural exports could fill supply gaps caused by the war in Ukraine.
Illinois families are struggling to pay for child care while workers can’t afford to stay in the industry.