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IL Senate Democrats Hold Redistricting Hearing
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Democrats will find out how people feel about their plan to redraw state Senate districts.

There's a redistricting committee hearing Saturday afternoon in Chicago to talk about it.

Earlier this week, Senate Democrats proposed stretching political turf into strange new shapes and throwing some incumbent Republicans into the same territory that will cost some of them their jobs.

Democrats are in charge of drawing the state's new political maps because they control the Legislature and the governor's office. Democrats in the Illinois House released their proposed map Friday. A new congressional map has yet to be seen.

The remapping is done every decade based on new Census numbers.

Another hearing will be held Tuesday in Springfield.

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05 20 11 by Newsroom
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