Rep. Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) expressed frustration about the Democrats’ failure to live up to its promise of cooperating fully with Republicans in creating fair maps.
Durkin also went as far as 2016 to cite House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 58 (HJRCA 58) which was a comprehensive bipartisan measure to put up an Independent Commission made up of eight members appointed by the chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. The bottom line is that the Democrats have absolutely no intention of holding to their promises on fair maps,” Durkin said. “The ones which they campaigned on and a fair map process which over 600,00 Illinoisans signed a petition on a few years ago to say that that is the way in which we should move forward.