No new subcircuit map for 2022

In the end, the Powers-That-Be couldn't figure out where to draw the new lines.

So there won't be any new lines, not until next year, and that will be too late for the forthcoming judicial primary.

The General Assembly adjourned yesterday after passing a controversial new Congressional map -- but without redrawing subcircuit boundaries.

New subcircuit boundaries were supposed to happen: P.A. 101-477 added a new subsection a-5 to §2f of the Circuit Courts Act, 705 ILCS 35/2f(a-5), which provided that, in 2021, "the General Assembly shall redraw the boundaries of the subcircuits to reflect the results of the 2020 federal decennial census." Instead, however, tucked away at p. 77 of a 96-page "amendment" to SB0536 (which changed a proposal dealing with use of political committee funds into an election omnibus bill), was just a one-digit change to §2f(a-5) of the Circuit Courts Act: 2021 became 2022.

The horse-trading will presumably continue, somewhere far offstage. Meanwhile, though, the 2022 election will apparently proceed without change to the subcircuit boundaries that have been used since 1992.