Hyde Park Does Not Have an Alderman!!!

Dear All,

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

Perhaps Hyde Park, or maybe 61s to Cottage Grove to 47th to the Lake, should:

1. Declare its Independence from the City of Chicago, partly "reversing" the 1888 joining of 'Hyde Park' to 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 Alderman, and NO dedicated-to-our-geographic-entity, Alderman

The goal would be 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, more or less, would be much better:
-- Each of the 77 named communities in Chicago would be one political unit. They would get a vote in a new City Council equal to the number of 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 the point, to talk publicly about it.

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 order a re-map of the aldermanic map for Chicago.

Yours,

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