CHICAGO — Enough Chicago aldermen are in agreement on a new map of the city’s 50 wards that they will avoid a ballot referendum next month that would have let voters choose from between competing maps, sources said Monday.
The proposed map will create 16 wards with Black majorities and 14 with Latino majorities, sources said. That’s one fewer Latino ward than the City Council Latino Caucus spent months fighting to secure.
Faced with a May 19 deadline to have at least 41 aldermen vote to approve a single map in order to avoid having their competing maps go to voters, council members have been negotiating to try to reach some kind of consensus.
