File #: 21-5299    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Approved
File created: 9/16/2021 In control: 2020 Census Redistricting Committee
On agenda: 9/22/2021 Final action: 9/23/2021
Title: PROPOSED ORDINANCE COOK COUNTY REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE OF 2021 WHEREAS, on November 6, 1990, the voters of Cook County approved the creation of 17 separate single-member districts for the election of members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 93-O-34 (the "Cook County Districting Ordinance"), adopted September 21, 1993, provides [in Section 1] that the members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners shall be elected from 17 single-member districts; and WHEREAS, the County Board is required by law to redistrict after each decennial census to insure that the 17 County Commissioner Districts are of substantially equal population according to census data from the United States Census Bureau; and WHEREAS, in accordance with that requirement, Ordinance No. 93-O-34 was previously amended by Ordinance No. 01-O-23, adopted September 6, 2001, and by Ordinance 12-O-29, adopted June 15, 2012; WHEREAS, in enacting the redistricting plan set forth in Sectio...
Sponsors: DEBORAH SIMS, PETER N. SILVESTRI, LUIS ARROYO JR, JOHN P. DALEY, SCOTT R. BRITTON, STANLEY MOORE, LARRY SUFFREDIN, DENNIS DEER, BRIDGET DEGNEN, KEVIN B. MORRISON, BRIDGET GAINER, BRANDON JOHNSON, DONNA MILLER, FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, BILL LOWRY, SEAN M. MORRISON
Attachments: 1. Appendix 1 Redistricting Ordinance of 2021, 2. Proposed Map Related to Redistricting Ordinance of 2021
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PROPOSED ORDINANCE

COOK COUNTY REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE OF 2021

WHEREAS, on November 6, 1990, the voters of Cook County approved the creation of 17 separate single-member districts for the election of members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 93-O-34 (the "Cook County Districting Ordinance"), adopted September 21, 1993, provides [in Section 1] that the members of the Cook County Board of Commissioners shall be elected from 17 single-member districts; and

WHEREAS, the County Board is required by law to redistrict after each decennial census to insure that the 17 County Commissioner Districts are of substantially equal population according to census data from the United States Census Bureau; and

WHEREAS, in accordance with that requirement, Ordinance No. 93-O-34 was previously amended by Ordinance No. 01-O-23, adopted September 6, 2001, and by Ordinance 12-O-29, adopted June 15, 2012;

WHEREAS, in enacting the redistricting plan set forth in Section 3 and Appendix 1 hereof, the following redistricting principles have been taken into account:

(1) each of the districts has been drawn to be substantially equal in population;

(2) each of the districts has been drawn to be consistent with the United States Constitution;

(3) each of the districts has been drawn to be consistent with the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. ?1973, et seq., as amended; and

(4) each of the districts has been drawn to reflect a balance of the following redistricting principles: the preservation of the core or boundaries of the existing districts; the preservation of communities of interest; respect for township, municipal, ward, and other political subdivision boundaries; the maintenance of incumbent-constituent relationships and tracking of population migration; proposals or other input submitted by members of the public and stakeholder groups; public hearing testimony; respect for geographic features and natural or logistical bo...

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