Chicago Tribune: Citizens First?

April 12, 2010

Editorial 

On Monday, the Illinois Senate’s Redistricting Committee will consider competing proposals to change the way the state’s legislative maps are drawn. If things go as they usually do, the Democratic measure will be voted out of committee and the Republican measure will go nowhere.

And that, dear citizen, is an apt illustration of what’s wrong with the Democrats’ redistricting proposal.

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