redistricting

I must say that a headline I read at Politico.com yesterday was an attention getter. How could you not be intrigued when a popular political website asks the question "How Screwed Is Adam Kinzinger?"

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network The redistricting reform people say non-political drawing of political maps has worked in other states. They’re pointing to a study that shows using an independent commission to draw maps for Congress and the state legislature has benefited communities of interest, and neither harmed nor helped either major political party...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge has ruled that signature-driven ballot measures calling for legislative term limits and a new political redistricting process can't appear on the November ballot. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Mary Mikva says in a Friday ruling the measures don't meet constitutional requirements to make the ballot...