Illinois Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, urges Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to live up to his 2018 campaign promise to veto any legislative redistricting map drawn by politicians and instead support the creation of an independent commission to devise a "fair" map, on Thursday, April 28, 2021, in Springfield, Ill. As Democrats who control the General Assembly begin the once-a-decade redrawing, Pritzker said this week that he will veto any map that isn't fair, but would not repeat his promise to approve only one drawn independent of politics. (John O'Connor/AP)
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