Not that it'll ever happen, but they are about to redraw the ward maps. And guess what they discovered?
Chicago’s loss of 200,000 residents — more than 180,000 of them black — will make the process of crafting a new ward map “as challenging as it’s ever been,” a powerful aldermen warned Wednesday.
With Hispanics demanding more City Council seats and blacks determined to hold on to what they’ve got, the once-in-a-decade political sweepstakes to accommodate the 2010 U.S. Census will get under way Aug. 1.
The City Council’s Finance and Rules Committees plan to hire consultants and set up a war room to begin the process of redrawing the city’s 50 wards, each with a population of 53,000 residents, down from 57,000 a decade ago.
Seeing as how there are only 18 Illinois Representatives in the US Congress representing 13 million people, it seems silly to have 50 aldercreatures representing a mere 2.6 million people. This would be the perfect opportunity to legislate 25 or 30 aldercreatures out of existence. Shared sacrifice and all that pablum the politicos feed us when they're reaching deeper and deeper into our dwindling wallets.