Proposed maps slammed by GOP, community groups; Democrats provide few answers – State Journal-Register (Springfield)

“When a community that is Muslim has the largest per capita population in Illinois and has zero representation at the state level… you’re pitting (minority groups) against each other and you’re pitting us against you and that’s now how it works,” said Dilara Sayeed from the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition. “Right now these draft maps aren’t built with us. They are built for us."

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