Fair redistricting: Illinois

[Strudelcutie4427]

Here's my Indiana. Not too much interesting about it, it's boring and blocky with only 8 County chops only for population equality. numbers in parenthases are the deviation so none of them exceeded +/- 1000 people

1- D+8 (-850)
2- R+12 (9)
3- R+17 (539)
4- R+17 (-238)
5- R+14 (420)
6- R+14 (24)
7- D+16 (-259)
8- R+16 (-180)
9- R+17 (539)

[Strudelcutie4427]

Can we extend this a day? I've been insanely busy and just realized the deadline is in an hour and a half. I love making maps of Indiana and I'd feel bummed out if I couldn't participate, haha.

Go for it! I dont think anyone would care if you miss the deadline by like a few hours

[Strudelcutie4427]

I JUST WROTE A REALLY REALLY LONG WRITE-UP ABOUT THIS BUT IT DELETED UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Either way, here are the new and old PVIs.
OLD:
Indiana 1  D+8   
Indiana 2   R+11
Indiana 3   R+18
Indiana 4   R+17   
Indiana 5   R+9   
Indiana 6   R+18
Indiana 7   D+11
Indiana 8   R+15
Indiana 9   R+13

NEW:
Indiana 1  D+8
Indiana 2  R+12
Indiana 3  R+17
Indiana 4  R+15
Indiana 5  R+17
Indiana 6  R+15
Indiana 7  D+16
Indiana 8  R+16
Indiana 9  R+14

To make it quick, this map accomplishes everything I wanted. Has 2 suburban seats (IN-05, IN-08) instead of the million we have now (IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-09), Has one centralized rust belt seat (IN-06), divides the 8th and 9th by horizontal geography rather than vertical which makes more sense given Southern Indiana's cultural similarity to the South. It also gives the Northern 3 townships of Marion County to IN-07, which makes more sense given urbanization, racial, etc. patterns of the county. There are also only 8 county splits without comprises geographical compaction.

That’s a great map. I love what you did with the Indy metro and the big western district is cool as well. Also glad you put the rural northwestern counties with that district instead of with the region district.

Thank you! And I agree about the Region, it makes a lot more sense to include Michigan City in Lake County's District rather  than the very rural counties south of Lake/Porter. With all do respect, I really don't understand why so many people did that since it means you have a few counties completely disconnected from the Chicago metro in the same district as near-Chicago.

I agree with you on that one. I think our 1st districts are the same too. It makes more sense to put a more urban industrial area in with the Lake county area than it does to stick farm land in with the Chicago suburbs

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+10 (1889)
2. R+21 (-379)
3. R+4 (-341)
4. R+19 (591)
5. D+6 (110)
6. R+16 (447)
7. R+1 (309)
8. R+13 (-66)
9. D+15 (372)
10. R+5 (-951)
11. D+6 (-282)
12. R+17 (1754)
13. R+3 (-78)
14. D+1 (-285)
15. D+1 (-1336)
16. D+30 (-1772) 49% B 40% W

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+9 (-1339)
2. R+9 (1454)
3. R+7 (772)
4. R+6 (1397)
5. D+9 (1099)
6. R+4 (865)
7. R+9 (137)
8. R+10 (197)
9. D+8 (-1186)
10. R+10 (1259)
11. R+1 (-1637)
12. D+27 (-542) 49% B, 37% W, 9% H
13. D+10 (-671)
14. D+30 (-1801) 51% B, 43% W

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+3 (Southeast) -868
2. D+18 (Madison) +1261
3. EVEN (Southwest) +199
4. D+25 (Milwaukee) -761
5. R+17 (WOW Counties) +737
6. R+8 (East Central) +615
7. R+6 (Northeast) -1115
8. R+7 (Northwest) -66

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+6
2. R+1
3. R+2
4. D+14
5. D+26
6. R+10
7. R+12
8. R+3

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+2
2. D+5
3. EVEN
4. R+14

[Strudelcutie4427]

1. R+11 (+10)
2. R+3 (+109)
3. R+28 (-118)

[Strudelcutie4427]

Hmm, we have 2 plans that respect the integrity of County boundaries, and 2 plans that ignore the integrity of County boundaries.

the world ain't gonna end if a county's in two different congressional districts

There is no reason not to have a whole County plan if it can be done without high deviation, or really ugly shapes.

Such is in fact possible to do in Nebraska, so it should be required.

Dude just chill. There’s a reason Nebraska is drawn as it is