, he said, a couple of districts still span too far, there are still only five Latino majority districts even though half of CPS’s student body is Latino, some Black majority districts still have a Black population under 60% and no Asian plurality district was added.
Lee asked lawmakers to postpone a vote until they draft another map; others asked the legislature to hold a special session devoted to improving it. “To make a map you have to do more than lines on a page that comply with the letter of the law and don’t piss off too many people,” she said., said as a resident of Archer Heights she will be in the “N” district, which stretches on from Gage Park into River North, or as she described it, “spans 70 blocks across 10 absolutely fragmented communities atop which sit very wealthy parents to the north.”