One of the departments in Champaign County that is doing great work is the GIS Consortium. Under Mark Toalson, and now Leanne Brehob-Riley, our mapping in the County has made great strides. Our office has been working with them on the political boundaries and have begun the process of creating new precinct maps. This will be followed up with new maps for County Board and Legislative lines. Here is the map page on our website.

For each election, we hope to be able to craft special maps in each precinct to show voters where they live in regard to the various elections and/or referenda that are being presented.

As I reviewed the maps we’ve put together so far, I started to muse about what I’d want in a precinct map as a candidate and volunteer. If you’ve got thoughts and would like to volunteer to help my staff put together these maps, we’d love to hear from you. Hopefully, by September, we’ll have maps that will fit the needs of voters, volunteers, and candidates.

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