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C-U to be in new “higher education” congressional district?

Illinois Democrats have proposed a new congressional district map that would place all but a tiny portion of Champaign-Urbana into a new district extending southwest to the Mississippi and the Metro-East portion of the St. Louis metropolitan area.  This new district would encompass the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State University, the University of Illinois at Springfield, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, as well as Millikin University and Illinois Wesleyan.  The vote on the propsed changes is expected this week.

Here is the current map:

And a higher resolution pdf of the current map.

 

Here is the proposed map:

And a higher resolution pdf of the proposed map.

Interestingly, Rep. Tim Johnson’s subdivision would be part of the sliver of C-U that gets shifted to District 15 in the above map, ruining my plans for a Hirschfeld-Johnson congressional race.

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