In 1975, the next scheduled reassessment of Illinois’ congressional districts was still five years away. But Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley didn’t want to wait.

The way the mayor saw it, the existing map was harming his beloved Chicago and keeping his political organization from expanding its influence into the suburbs.

So he had a friendly state legislator propose a new map, years before the next federal census would normally trigger the process.

Chicago’s newspapers rebuked Daley for the power play, and a New York Times story proclaimed his gambit “one of the oldest of political games.”

Currently it’s one of the newest, as political remapping is being weaponized in the cold war between red states (supporting President Donald Trump) and blue states (opposing).

Last month, Texas Democ

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