SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) -- End gerrymandering in Illinois and change the district maps. That was the call of a Republican press conference in Peoria on Tuesday.

On Monday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries traveled to Springfield to convince fellow Democratic lawmakers to change their congressional districts, hoping to gain one Democratic seat by the 2026 midterms.

State Rep. Ryan Spain, a Peoria republican, said Jeffries needs to keep his focus away from Illinois and on the federal government shutdown.

"This is a leader who has already been blocked in his home state of New York from some of the gerrymandering that we're accustomed to seeing in Illinois," Spain said.

"Now he comes to our state asking for Illinois lawmakers to be complicit in further gerrymandering and corruption.

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