How Illinois draws its legislative maps may very well change this year. Yesterday, the Senate Democrats introduced their proposal (SJRCA 121) to reform how Illinois draws these crucial boundaries. The proposal, written by State Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago), will be vetted during a Senate Redistricting Committee hearing on Monday. In anticipation, WTTW's Chicago Tonight hosted a panel yesterday with Raoul, as well as the legal director of the Asian American Institute and the executive director of the League of Women Voters, which supports the competing Fair Map proposal. Watch the segment below:

To learn more about the problems with the current system and the differences between the two reform proposals, be sure to read our primer from early March and our follow-up from a few weeks ago.