Skokie plans info session on drawing maps, creating zones from which to elect village trustees
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After Skokie voters approved three reform measures to village government, the village will hold a public information seminar next month on a task related to one of those reform measures — drawing electoral maps.
That reform measure specifies that Skokie residents will elect four trustees from zones or districts within the village, and the village must embark on a process for implementing that.
According to a news release from the village, the seminar will take place Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Skokie Public Library’s Petty Auditorium.
Residents will have the chance to give initial input on the process and hear an overview of the steps to drawing electoral districts from the village’s mapping consultant Peter Creticos, the news release states.
The village plans to present a draft map Sept. 11 and have the map finalized by the end of the year, per the news release. The map will first take effect in the 2025 consolidated elections.
In 2022, Skokie residents approved a trio of government-reform referenda that created non-partisan elections, staggered elections for village board positions every two years and mandated the establishment of four electoral districts, each of which would be represented by one trustee. The other two trustees on the village board will remain elected from the entire village, per the referenda.
The Skokie Caucus Party, to which five of the six sitting trustees belong as well as Mayor George Van Dusen and Village Clerk Pramod Shah, opposed all three changes. The Caucus Party has dominated village politics for the last 60 years.
The meeting will be accessible remotely on the village YouTube channel and website, per the press release.
