Hyde Park: Let Us Declare Our Independence from Chicago! ... Opinion

Dear Hyde Parkers,

I'm not sure if this optimally is a petition or a Declaration ... or a lawsuit:

In my opinion:

Hyde Park, for the exact-area 61st to Cottage Grove to 47th to the Lake, should:

1. Declare its Independence from the City of Chicago, partly "reversing" the 1888 "incorporation" of 'Hyde Park' into Chicago

2. Simultaneously file a lawsuit that Hyde Parkers are not represented legally in the City Council, since this community has three partial-only City Council Aldermen, and NO dedicated-to-our-geographic-entity, Alderman

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One goal is for Chicago to give up its current Aldermanic system and replace it with something that is much closer to making-sense.

The system that is used for the Democratic Committee of Cook County, would be much better, if not by-far-the-best-possible system:
-- Each of the 77 named communities in Chicago would be one political unit. It would get a vote in a new City Council equal to the number of its residents.

If people prefer 38 or 39 rather than 77 members of a City Council, then each pair of neighboring communities (eg, Hyde Park and Kenwood) can have one human representative; the representative would have a vote in Council equal to the population of the area represented.

Even if this never succeeds or takes 20 years ... it makes an important point, just to talk publicly about it. Or, to hear it talked about in our Courts.

I'd bet a court would agree with a lawsuit and would at a minimum write that there must be much-less 'gerrymandering' as far as Hyde Park goes, and would order a re-map of the aldermanic map for Chicago, that gives Hyde Park ONE representative, and not three.

Yours,

"Mayor Sid", Patch Mayor for the Hyde Park Patch
https://patch.com/users/sid-colton