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主流媒体 Illinois Statehouse News 有关此事的报道：
Redistricting measure to offer extra protection to minorities January 3, 2011
By Diane S.W. Lee Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — As a result of a legislative map drawn 10 years ago by Democrats, Chicago’s Chinatown is split up into many districts.
But legislation passed by a House committee on Monday hopes to fix that.
“Despite our best efforts, what came out from the 2001 redistricting process, Chinatown was being divided into three congressional districts, three state senate districts, four representative districts, four city wards and two county commission districts,” C.W. Chan, chairman of Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, told a panel of House lawmakers on Monday.
（2001年选区重画的选区重画结果是，唐人街被分割得四分五裂：1，在联邦层面，分别归属三个国会选区。2，在州政府层面，分别归属三个伊州参议院选区，四个伊州众议院选区。 3，在芝加哥市政府层面，分别归属四个市政府选区。4，在Cook County 曾米娜，分别归属两个库克郡选区。 侨学网编注）
Senate Bill 3976 would give minorities more protection under the redistricting process.
“All this we attribute to the fact that the (Chinatown) community has been fragmented — as a result we see that kind of decrease in responsiveness and accountability,” Chan said. “And that’s why we are appealing to our legislators to address this situation where for the upcoming redistricting Chinatown can be placed into one single district.”
By law, the map is required to be redrawn every 10 years to reflect the change in population following the release of U.S. Census figures. Democrats currently control both chambers of the legislature and the governor's office, so they will get to draw the state’s legislative and congressional boundaries, thereby shaping elections for the next 10 years.
House sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago, said whichever party draws the map will need to follow the constitutional requirements, which states that the legislative and representative districts need to be “compact, contiguous and substantially equal in population.”
Currie said the map will be required to be drawn from criteria stated in the Illinois constitution, while specific factors will be considered later. Race is one of the factors that will be taken into consideration, Currie said.
“Once you’ve done everything that the federal constitution and the voting rights act, and the state constitution tells you, you have to do, then you would look at the crossover, the coalition and the minority influence districts,” Currie said. “Yes, there is a mandate but that doesn't tell you what the outcome will be, because as I say there are all those factors that precede this as something that a mapmaker should take into account.”
Currie said they will need to look at Census data details, which are expected to be released in the spring. In addition, a minimum of four public hearings will be held after the map is drawn.
Whitney Woodward with the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform said more hearings would improve transparency and allow Illinois residents to participate in the redistricting process. Woodward said her organization has been active on the redistricting process for more than a year.
“But unfortunately, Senate Bill 3976 is currently written so that it would not ensure that Illinoisans are given a meaningful opportunity to participate and monitor the process, and that’s because it doesn’t guarantee that they’ll be able to suggest maps, comment on drafts and propose improvements to such proposals,” Woodward said.
The measure now moves to the full House for consideration.
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