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Ward Remap Hearing

11/14/2011

 
This year the City Council creates the new political map for Chicago.  I predict this will be a stormy  process. Based on the 2010 census the drop in the African American population and the rise in the Hispanic population three "Black" wards should disappear and three Hispanic wards should be created. But the representatives of the Asian community want an Asian ward. And the Poles don't want their ward cut up.

I picked up the demographic maps and the City Council resolution creating the public hearings so I could get ready for the public hearing on Thursday at City Hall.

The most interesting thing I learned came from Alderman Richard Mell's statement that if forty-one alderman can not agree on a map then any ten alderman can create a map and put it to a vote by the voters of Chicago.

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