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Former federal officials are backing an effort to reform the state legislature’s redistricting process. Congressional districts would be unaffected.

Illinois’ state Senate map gives a partisan advantage to Democrats, and its House map isn’t compact enough, according to researchers at Princeton.

Ray LaHood and Bill Daley hope to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2026, but they’ll need hundreds of thousands of signatures and millions of dollars to do so.

Past efforts to reform legislative redistricting, most notably in 2016, failed after ballot measures were thrown out by state courts.

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