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CHICAGO (AP) Illinois Democrats used inadequate data and an opaque process to draw new legislative districts, a Latino civil rights organization argued in the latest lawsuit seeking to block the maps from being used for statehouse elections over the next decade.
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Latinos and other minority groups could absorb the consequences of the new district lines through inadequate representation in the Illinois General Assembly, according to one of the suits.