By Eric Boehm, includes “The proposed plan for redrawing Illinois' congressional districts is a total mess. State lawmakers were tasked with the once-per-decade redistricting, and the Democrats who control the state government produced a map that is both wildly partisan and wildly gerrymandered. … Overall, the map has been given a grade of ‘F’ by the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which grades congressional maps on partisan fairness, geographical compactness, and other factors.”