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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Chicago’s $2M precinct consolidation plan denounced as ‘voter suppression’

Linda McCully casts her ballot earlier this month at the Chicago Board of Elections early-voting Supersite, 191 N. Clark St. in the Loop. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A $2 million precinct consolidation plan tied to redistricting that eliminated 779 of Chicago’s 2,069 precincts was denounced Thursday as “voter suppression.”

Mayoral challenger Willie Wilson has asked a federal judge to block the plan, which he said “reminds me of the Jim Crow days down South where I’m from,” when people were denied the right to vote and fought and died to secure it.

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