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AN ACT to apportion the State into twenty Congressional Districts, and establish the same, and provide for the election of representatives therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the State of Illinois be, and the same is hereby apportioned into twenty congressional districts, and that the same are hereby established, and shall be respectively composed as herein set forth, to-wit:

The First district shall be composed of the First, Second, Third and Fourth wards in the city of Chicago, and the towns of Riverside, Hyde Park, Lake, Lyons, Calumet, Worth, Palos, Lemont, Thornton, Bremen, Orland, Bloom and Rich, in the county of Cook.

The Second district, of the fifth, sixth and seventh wards in the city of Chicago, and that part of the eighth ward in the city of Chicago which is south of the center of Polk street and the center of Macalester Place.

The Third district, of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards in the city of Chicago, and that part of the Eighth ward in the city of Chicago which is north of the center of Polk street and the center of Macalester Place.

The Fourth district, of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards_ in the city of Chicago, and the towns of Lake View, Jefferson, Leyden, Norwood Park, Evanston, Niles, Maine, Elk Grove, Schaumburg, Hanover, New Trier, Northfield, Wheeling, Palatine, Barrington, Cicero and Proviso, in the county of Cook.

The Fifth district, of the counties of Lake, McHenry, Boone, DeKalb and Kane.

The Sixth district, of the counties of Winnebago, Stephenson, JoDaviess, Ogle and Carroll.

The Seventh district, of the counties of Lee, Whiteside, Henry, Bureau and Putnam.

The Eighth district, of the counties of LaSalle, Kendall, Grundy, Will and DuPage.

The Ninth district, of the counties of Kankakee, Iroquois, Ford, Livingston, Woodford and Marshall.

The Tenth district, of the counties of Peoria, Knox, Stark and Fulton.

The Eleventh district, of the counties of Rock Island, Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Hancock, McDonough and Schuyler.

The Twelfth district, of the counties of Cass, Brown, Adams, Pike, Scott, Greene, Jersey and Calhoun.

The Thirteenth district, of the counties of Tazewell, Mason, Menard, Sangamon, Morgan and Christian.

The Fourteenth district, of the counties of McLean, DeWitt, Piatt, Macon and Logan.

The Fifteenth district, of the counties of Coles, Edgar, Douglas, Vermilion and Champaign.

The Sixteenth district, of the counties of Cumberland, Clark, Jasper, Crawford, Clay, Richland, Lawrence, Wayne, Edwards and Wabash.

The Seventeenth district, of the counties of Macoupin, Montgomery, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham and Fayette.

The Eighteenth district, of the counties of Bond, Madison, St. Clair, Monroe and Washington.

The Nineteenth district, of the counties of Marion, Clinton, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, White, Saline, Gallatin and Hardin.

The Twentieth district, of the counties of Perry, Randolph, Jackson, Williamson, Union, Johnson, Pope, Alexander, Pulaski and Massac.

§ 2. One Representative to the Congress of the United States shall be elected in each of the districts before enumerated, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in the year of our Lord 1882, and one in each of said districts every two years thereafter; such elections shall be held, and the returns thereof made and canvassed, in the manner provided by law.

§ 3. An act entitled "An act to apportion the State into nineteen congressional districts, and to establish the same, and provide for the election of representatives therein," approved March 28, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, is hereby repealed.

APPROVED April 29, 1882.

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