The move was done 'to make sure the people of Chicago have no say,' one good-government advocate said.
Latino Caucus Chair Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, listens to a colleague during a City Council meeting in March.
The partnership with good-government advocates could also have helped them label a competing map as one crafted in a backroom by political insiders. That’s the map backed by the City Council Rules Committee, which is now favored by 34 aldermen, including most of the Black Caucus. Latino Caucus Chair Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, right, with Ald. Roberto Maldonado, 26th, during a City Council meeting in September.
“In doing so with time running out, they are knowingly stopping Chicagoans from having the option of voting June 28th on the only ward map with aldermanic support that the people of the city helped design,” Doubek said in a statement.
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