Illinois Democrats are using their dominance in Springfield to help give their party an edge in maintaining control in Washington, D.C. while also lifting the political cachet of Latino voters in Chicago and the northern suburbs, but it comes at the expense of one of their own.
 
Late Thursday night and into the wee hours of Friday morning, chambers of the state legislature approved a new map of U.S. House districts – a congressional map that Republican state Rep. Jeff Keicher of Sycamore called “the most gerrymandered map in the country.”
 
“Your maps make a farce of democracy and the process is a charade,” Keicher said.
 
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