Illinois Redistricting Megathread

[JGibson]

I don't see a full 13-4 happening but I can buy a 13-1-3 if incumbent demands force Underwood to take Rockford. I can also see the usual 14-3 if IL dems are happy with seats in Chicagoland without Underwood taking Rockford.

After that you can draw a 13th Likely D seat downstate from either East St.louis to Champaign or Champaign to Rock Island. Then a swing seat can either come from Champaign to McClean or Carbondale to Decatur.

Also for the East. St louis swing/ Likely D seat, Andy Manar wouldn't be a bad recruit. He's a fairly standard Democrat(voted for the Fair tax stuff) on every issue besides some gun stuff.

Agreed with former State Sen. Andy Manar being a good choice for that ESTL seat. State Rep. Katie Stuart (D) could be another good option for it.

[JGibson]

3rd edition of the Illinois Congressional redistricting maps are now out.

https://twitter.com/AmandaVinicky/status/1453552094707859460
https://twitter.com/JGibsonDem/status/1453552958470246402

[JGibson]

I haven’t had a Democratic rep since Enyart and I’m stoked to be finally getting one (Anne Callis?)

Also, this is exactly the kind of maximalist redistributing every Dem trifecta should be doing until we have a national redistributing standard.

It looks like Nikki Budzinski's the lead Dem running in 13.

[JGibson]

It's officially official. The Congressional maps are now signed into law.