redistricting

A Republican advocacy group is withdrawing its request for a court order seeking the immediate release of Census Bureau records

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed newly-passed legislative district maps to govern elections in the Illinois General Assembly for the next decade despite opposition from Republicans and criticism from certain community groups who say they were ignored in the process.

Illinois lawmakers are scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday afternoon on the new proposed legislative maps that Democrats, who hold a majority of seats in both chambers, released last week as part of the redistricting process.

Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly released draft versions of the proposed legislative maps created in the redistricting process Friday evening.

The Illinois legislature is currently working on redistricting the state, a process that’s completed just once every 10 years and has the power to shape the state’s politics for the next decade and beyond. What exactly is redistricting, how does the process work in Illinois and why does it matter?

You’ve probably heard of gerrymandering, the term for when politicians redraw political districts to either consolidate power — or break up their opponents’ supporters. But you probably don’t know that it dates back to the earliest years of the country and was named after a district that looked like a salamander. And you also may not know how it directly...

Illinois Republicans pounced on Gov. J.B. Pritzker Wednesday for his seeming change of heart on how legislative districts are drawn, urging the reform-minded governor to seize an opportunity to make a dent in the state’s long-reviled history of corruption.

For the fifth consecutive census, Illinois has lost a Congressional seat, and NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has more on what we learned as census data was released Monday.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released state population totals that determine the number of House seats each state gets out of 435. According to the data, southern states grew the fastest, with a 10.2% overall increase in population.

States across the South are the center of the upcoming, once-a-decade redistricting battle

Texas Republicans are rolling out a slew of restrictive election bills, taking particular aim at early voting after Democrats enthusiastically embraced the practice last year

As the once-a-decade redistricting conflicts heat up across the country, both Republicans and Democrats are wrestling with how far to press their advantage in a process as consequential as any election.

Illinois lawmakers are facing a May 3 deadline to approve a joint resolution that would alter how congressional and legislative maps are drawn across the state to help make elections more competitive.

NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain goes deeper into the history of the U.S. Census and what it means for the populations that get overlooked during the nationwide count every 10 years.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his second annual State of the State address in Springfield Wednesday, touting the accomplishments of his first year and highlighting some of the most pressing issues currently facing Illinois – taking particular aim at what he called a “scourge” of corruption in the state’s politics. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.