This week's question was: When was the last time state supreme court districts were redrawn in Illinois?

You answered: 1983

The correct answer is: 1964.

Illinois lawmakers approved revised maps for the Illinois state Senate, the Illinois House of Representatives, and the Illinois Supreme Court in May 2021. State supreme court districts in Illinois were last redrawn in 1964. The state is divided into five supreme court districts. Cook County (home to Chicago) forms a single district, but it is allocated three seats on the seven-member court. Downstate Illinois is divided into four districts, each with one seat on the court.

The Illinois Constitution specifies that those four districts should have substantially equal population. The 2019 Annual Report of the Illinois Courts estimated that these downstate state supreme court districts ranged from a population of 1.28 million to 3.19 million.

The state constitution allows state lawmakers to redraw supreme court districts at any time. However, according to The Chicago Tribune, "lawmakers have traditionally used boundaries for the circuit, appellate and Supreme Court laid out in a 1964 overhaul of the state's court system."

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