Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2021-4835

• Record #: O2021-4835
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 10/25/2021
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees and Rules
• Final action: 5/24/2023
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 2-8 by replacing current Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810 with new Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810 regarding redistricting of City wards
• Sponsors: Villegas, Gilbert, La Spata, Daniel , Hopkins, Brian , Beale, Anthony, Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Lopez, Raymond A., Rodriguez, Michael D., Tabares, Silvana, Sigcho-Lopez, Byron, Reboyras, Ariel, Cardona, Jr., Felix , Rodriguez Sanchez, Rossana , Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, Vasquez, Jr., Andre, Cappleman, James
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 8 City Council & Wards of City
• Related files: R2023-766

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/24/2023		City Council	Failed to Pass
10/25/2021	39511	City Council	Referred

Chicago Citv Council October 25, 2021
REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES AND RULES ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, Article VTI, Section 6(a) ofthe Constitution of the State of Illinois provides that a home rule unit of government may exercise any power and perform any function relating to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, The City of Chicago, having a population in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) is a home rule unit; and

WHEREAS, The redistricting of the wards of the City of Chicago is a matter relating to the government and affairs ofthe City: and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to Section 65 ILCS 20-21/38 ofthe Illinois Compiled Statues, the City Council shall, by ordinance, redistrict the City of Chicago on the basis ofthe national census of the preceding year; and

Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago:

SECTION 1. Chapter 2-8 of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting therefrom Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810 and substituting therefore new Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810, as follows:

2-8-300. Wards Created - Basis - Redistricting.

The City is hereby divided into 50 wards and redistricted as provided in this Chapter.

In the year following the national decennial census, the City Council shall redistrict the City on the basis of such census. In the formation of wards in such redistricting, as nearly as practicable, each ward shall be compact, contiguous, and of substantially equal population with an acceptable deviation to respect established communities of interest or to achieve other legally valid and permissible objectives. This provision shall be subject to Section 21-39 ofthe Revised Cities and Villages Act, provided that no substitute redistricting ordinance shall be submitted to the voters pursuant to Section 21-39 unless one-fifth or more ofthe Aldermen elected, who did not vote to pass the first proposed redistricting ordinance, file with the City Clerk a substitute ordinance together with an app...