Redistricting Articles and Resources

The following articles and resources could be helpful in learning more about the
redistricting process and preparing public testimony.

Illinois Senate Redistricting Committee Website

http://www.ilsenateredistricting.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78
&Itemid=117

Illinois Speaker of the House Redistricting Website

(Information is old, but very useful in understanding the process. God willing, it will be
updated when the Illinois House has their hearings.
http://clients.ecampaigning.com/ilr/news/050201b.htm

Ballotpedia
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Redistricting_in_Illinois

State's First 'Real' Redistricting Map Since 1971

Rich Miller
http://freepressnewspapers.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=134&ArticleID=
6743

Illinois' Wacked Out Way of Redistricting

Dennis Byrne
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0315-byrne-
20110314,0,3249102.column

Something's Gotta Give When City Redraws Ward Map

Mark Brown
http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/4010107-452/somethings-gotta-give-when-city-
redraws-ward-map.html

Ward Demographic Data-Rob Paral and Associates

http://robparal.com/downloads/Wards/Ward0010.htm

Chicago Map Depicting Population Changes-Rob Paral and Associates

http://robparal.com/documents/Chicago_PUMAs7.html

Population Changes in Illinois Legislative Districts-Bob Paral and Associates

http://robparal.com/downloads/PopulationChangeinIlLegisDistricts.pdf

Midwest Democracy Network

http://midwestdemocracynetwork.org/index.php/news/article/midwest_states_launch_ca
mpaign_to_pull_back_curtain_on_2011_redistricting/
SB3976-Senate Sponsors: Kwame Raoul - Jacqueline Y. Collins - James F.
Clayborne, Jr. - Mattie Hunter - Don Harmon and Kimberly A. Lightford

House Sponsors
(Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie - William D. Burns - Monique D. Davis)

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=3976&GAID=10&GA=96&DocTy
peID=SB&LegID=54268&SessionID=76

Members of the Illinois Senate Redistricting Committee

http://www.ilsenateredistricting.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74
&Itemid=113

Maps of the Illinois State Representative Districts

http://www.elections.state.il.us/votinginformation/representativedistricts.aspx

Maps of Illinois' Congressional Districts

http://www.elections.il.gov/votinginformation/congressionaldistricts.aspx

US Bureau of the Census 2010 Redistricting Data

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/

Brennan Center for Justice Redistricting 101

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/redistricting_for_advocates

Brennan Center for Justice Redistricting 101-Workshop Videos

http://vimeo.com/7310182