A bipartisan push to let voters amend the Illinois Constitution to reduce politics in drawing state legislative maps has been suspended, with organizers saying the timing is “not ripe” amid a ...

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries traveled to Illinois Monday to urge lawmakers and African-American Congress members to support redrawing of the state's Congressional maps mid-decade.

The departure of Texas Democrats who spent two weeks in suburban Chicago evading a vote in their state on a Republican-backed redrawing of congressional district boundaries has not ended the ...