*** UPDATE 1 *** The House has passed the Cook County Board of Review remap 72-45. The chamber is now debating the Illinois Supreme Court remap bill.

*** UPDATE 2 *** The House just passed the Supreme Court map 72-45. Keep an eye on the live coverage post for moment-by-moment updates and debate coverage.

*** UPDATE 3 *** The House is debating the resolution describing the intent of the remap. Within that resolution, the Democrats claim that changes were made to the district to unpack House Republicans from districts with fellow House Republicans “Following the request of Republicans.” The Republicans say they made no request (see below) and Rep. Keicher specifically asked that his name be removed from the resolution.

*** UPDATE 4 *** The Senate is now taking up the legislative redistricting bill, HB2777.

*** UPDATE 5 *** The Senate has passed the redistricting bill, HB2777, which now heads to the House.

*** UPDATE 6 *** The House has passed the legislative redistricting resolution.

*** UPDATE 7 *** The Senate has approved the new Supreme Court maps on a partisan roll call. It will be sent to the governor.

*** UPDATE 8 *** The Senate has passed the Board of Review remap. It will be sent to the governor.

*** UPDATE 9 *** ILGOP Chair…

“Illinois Democrat legislators conducted an embarrassing and nontransparent process to create the exact type of map Governor JB Pritzker pledged to veto. The Governor now has a choice. He can either keep his word to veto a partisan map drawn by politicians or turn his back on the people of Illinois. Pritzker can do the right thing or outright break his promise.”

*** UPDATE 10 *** The House has passed the legislative redistricting bill 71-45. And that’s it. Both chambers have passed their resolutions, and both chambers have now passed all the remap bills.

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* Crain’s…

After a week of absolutely tone-deaf public relations, Illinois Democrats finally got a little smarter last night, rolling out slightly revised proposed new maps for Illinois House and Senate districts.

But the changes, which are expected to start moving through the House later today and make it to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk by the time you’re back at work next week, effectively only tweak around the margins of maps that leave Democrats solidly in control of the General Assembly. […]

“It was a ploy to get us to go along, and we didn’t bite,” says one ranking Republican. “They tried the exact same thing 10 years ago. It’s the same playbook.”

This was a power move, and those aren’t popular with reporters and pundits. You just put your head down and listen to your lawyers. The second map is part of the whole process and, as noted above, was used before…

The once-in-a-decade event is always acrimonious, but partisan bickering and even tiffs between members of the redistricting committees and witnesses weighing in on the mapmaking process have dominated conversations surrounding the new district boundaries.

The chief complaint from advocacy organizations is Democrats’ insistence on using non-Census data to draw the maps, as the COVID pandemic delayed the 2020 Census data until August — more than two months after a constitutional trigger that takes the redistricting process out of lawmakers’ hands and punts it to an eight-member bipartisan appointed commission, which has ended in deadlock three of four times it’s ever been used.

As a deadlocked commission is a forgone conclusion, Democrats don’t want to risk giving Republicans a 50/50 chance to control the mapmaking process with the random selection of an additional partisan member of the panel, who would cast the deciding vote in one of the party’s favors.

* Tribune…

Democrats late Tuesday also acknowledged the use of “public election data” in drawing the maps. The party preference of Illinois voters who cast primary ballots is public record.

In addition the Democrats said 15 of the new districts are at or above 50% Black population and 14 districts are at or above 50% Latinx.

The state’s Latinx population has supplanted the Black population behind the state’s white population.

Those are not Citizen Voting Age Population numbers, however. There are 12 Black and 5 Latinx-majority districts when accounting for CVAP.

* Capitol News Illinois…

Republicans on Wednesday tried to tie an indictment of a longtime lieutenant of former House Speaker Michael Madigan to the Democrats’ effort to redraw legislative district lines ahead of the General Assembly’s May 31 adjournment.

The latest indictment came Wednesday with just six days remaining in the legislative session, as former Madigan chief of staff Tim Mapes faced charges of lying to a grand jury about his knowledge of Madigan’s involvement with a prominent lobbyist who has also been indicted. Madigan has not been charged.

Republicans on a redistricting committee used the indictment as a new line of attack, complementing their claims that Democrats are trying to forge ahead with inadequate population data and a complete lack of transparency as to how the maps were drawn.

Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, pointed out that Mapes was heavily involved in Madigan’s redistricting efforts, the most recent of which took place in 2011 after the previous decennial census.

“The new boss has the old boss’s ways. It came home to roost today in the indictment of the man who used to run this entire operation, and whose shadow was cast across these proceedings,” Butler said. “Let’s get transparent, let’s get the data out.”

* The new boss may have “improved” on the old boss’ ways…

Republicans say even though Speaker @RepChrisWelch promised a "new day," he's used the same, Madigan playbook.

Spoke with a maps consultant last night who says from his POV, Democrats are more aggressively partisan with these maps than Madign was with the last set. https://t.co/1RLcobLEga

— Amanda Vinicky (@AmandaVinicky) May 28, 2021

Mapes, by the way, pleaded not guilty today.