Latinos would get 14 wards, up from their current 13 Hispanic-majority wards but fewer than the 15 the City Council Latino Caucus has said it wants after the U.S. census reported Latinos now ...

UPDATED 01/19/12 3:57 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS)-- The City Council has approved a new map for Chicago's 50 wards, as required following the 2010 Census. As CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports, by a vote of 41-8 ...

Chicago only really has 10 winnable new Latino wards, not 13, the Latino Policy Forum says, inviting a legal challenge. But others say Hispanics did as well as they could.

Mell said his proposed map includes 18 primarly African American wards, 16 with primarly white populations and 13 wards where Latinos are the majority. Three other wards are Latino-influenced ...

The new map calls for 18 African-American majority wards, with 17 white wards, 13 Latino wards and two other wards with Latino majorities — but not large enough that election of a Latino ...

There are 13 majority-white wards, and for the first time, a majority-Asian ward. The other seven wards have no racial majority, but two of those have a Latino plurality.

CHICAGO — A final deadline to approve a new ward map loomed over the Chicago City Council on Wednesday after weeks of bitter clashes between its Black ... whose members represent 13 wards, ...

13-member ‘people’s commission’ will draw new boundaries for proposed Chicago ward map The nonprofit group CHANGE Illinois and its civic partners hope their ward map can trigger a referendum ...

More than a year after Chicago aldermen thought they had settled the contentious issue of redrawing the city’s 50 ward boundaries, the new map they approved is facing a challenge in federal ...

According to legislation filed with the City Clerk’s office, the Mell map creates 13 Latino majority wards, and another two wards with a Latino population over 38 percent.

The March 9 announcement launched a new effort by CHANGE Illinois, a nonprofit focusing on fair and effective elections, to create an alternate Chicago ward map. The model is simple: 13 Chicagoans ...

A battle over how to redraw Chicago's ward maps with 2020 census data is turning into a power struggle ... a third alternative that calls for 15 Black majority wards, 14 Latino, and 13 ...