SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Commerce Secretary Bill Daley and former congressman and Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, are teaming up to launch a new push for fair maps in Illinois’ state legislative districts.
The pair is looking to take partisanship out of the process and give voters a better voice in elections.
It is a bipartisan effort to address the negative impact of gerrymandered state House and Senate districts by taking the hyper-politics out of the map making process.
Their goal is to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot next year to establish an independent commission to draw state legislative maps.
Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie supports the new initiative:
The amendment, according to its backers, will need about 320,000 valid signatures to appear on the 2026 November ballot.