The issue of partisan gerrymandering is burning white hot right now as President Donald Trump has forced Texas Republicans to attempt a redraw of their state maps a second time since the decennial redistricting process fashioned new maps in 2022. California, our own Illinois, and other states across the country have threatened retaliation for this blatant attempt at a congressional power grab.

According to the Tribune’s reporting last week, some civic leaders in Chicago believe the answer to what ails our country is an independent map commission that will draw lines without data connected to partisanship.

Ten years ago, they proposed this same thing and 10 years ago I wrote in these very pages that independently drawn maps will have no effect on the political fissures we fac

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