Record #: O2022-1318   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 5/16/2022 Current Controlling Legislative Body:
Final action: 5/16/2022
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 2-8, Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810, regarding redistricting of fifty wards of City of Chicago
Sponsors: Harris, Michelle A., O'Shea, Matthew J., King, Sophia D., Lee, Nicole T. , Cardenas, George A., Maldonado, Roberto, Ervin, Jason C., Waguespack, Scott, Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, Nugent, Samantha , Smith, Michele, Tunney, Thomas
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 8 City Council & Wards of City
Attachments: 1. O2022-1318 (color version).pdf, 2. O2022-1318.pdf
CITY OF CHICAGO
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MICHELLE A. HARRIS, ALDERMAN, 8TH WARD CHAIRMAN-COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES AND RULES
CITY HALL, RM-200, OFFICE #4 • 121 NORTH LASALLE STREET. CHICAGO IL 60602 PHONE: 312-744-3075 • FAX: 312-744-5007




May 16, 2022



TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I transmit herewith, together with Aldermen O'Shea, King, Lee, Cardenas, Maldonado, Ervin, Waguespack, Ramirez-Rosa, Nugent, Smith and Tunney, an ordinance amending the Municipal Code of Chicago relating to redistricting of the fifty wards ofthe City of Chicago.

Very truly yours,





Michelle Harris, Chairman Committee on Committees and Rules
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 6(a) of the 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 of the City: and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to Section 21-38 ofthe Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941, codified at 65 ILCS 20-21/38, the City Council shall, by ordinance, redistrict the City of Chicago on the basis of the national census of the preceding year; now, therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2-8 of the Municipal Code ofthe City of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting therefrom Sections 2-8-300 through 2-8-810 and substituting therefor 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 ...

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