Illinois will lose one member in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January 2023 and is one of three states to lose population over the last decade, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
It was widely expected that Illinois would lose a member of Congress after the 2020 Census. The state currently has 18 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, but will have 17 seats open in the 2022 election. Six other states also lost members, while six states will gain representatives.
Population loss compared to other states has caused Illinois to lose at least one member of Congress in every reapportionment process since the 1980 Census.
It makes no sense for Democrats in a shrinking blue state such as Illinois to unilaterally agree to draw "fair" political maps in order to give Republicans more power. Columnist Eric Zorn argues that gerrymandering is a problem that demands a national solution, not feel-good capitulation.
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Angela Jackson interlaced poetry and dialogue during the “Understanding Our New World” live stream discussion with Paul Simon Public Policy Institute director John Shaw.
She talked about her early years in Illinois as well as the Chicago native who inspired her.
“I had seen a film in high school of Gwendolyn Brooks,” she explained. “And I still remember first seeing her and thinking, ‘she s a Negro like me. She lives in Chicago like me,’ so I remember that made an impression upon me.”
Jackson said Brooks used language in the same way Billie Holiday sang: Every note meant something. Every word meant something.
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