Beginning Tuesday April 19th, members of the public will have access to technology in Chicago where they can draw and submit maps to be used in the Illinois remap process.

At the workstation the public can draw boundaries of Illinois Congressional, Legislative and Representative districts to be considered by the Senate and House Redistricting Committees. Users will have access to a menu of census data including racial demographics along with current boundaries of wards, house districts, senate districts and counties. Interested parties will also have access to a facilitator which can offer technical assistance. The terminal will be located on the 7th Floor of the Bilandic Building in a joint, bi-cameral space dedicated to public redistricting efforts.

For more information please visit http://www.ilsenateredistricting.com/.

This year, the Earth Day Network has a goal to obtain one billion pledges across the world to participate in a green activity on April 22. So far, over 80 million people across the globe have pledged to participate in this year’s Earth Day by donating money, advocating for and generating green events in their communities. Because of these efforts over the past 40 years, Earth Day has become the largest global civic engagement activity and it only continues to grow.