CHICAGO — As the redistricting battle plays out across the county, political leaders in Illinois are staying quiet about their plans to redraw congressional maps here. But under intense pressure from democrats in Washington D.C., the debate is starting to spill out into public view.

At Rainbow Push headquarters on Wednesday, influential Black local lawmakers left a closed-door meeting about a plan to change the Illinois congressional map.

“We’ve read it in the press, we’ve heard it in the press, but we’ve never saw a map,” State Senator Willie Preston said.

“We cannot take a position on something we have not seen,” State Senator Lakeisha Collins said.

Last weekend, the Democratic leader in Congress Hakeem Jeffries met with Black lawmakers to pitch a new map that could help Democrats pi

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