Failed Redistricting Plans Shared Common Feature

Efforts to reform the way Illinois redraws its legislative districts every ten years appear to have run out of steam. A proposed constitutional amendment backed by Democrats fell two votes short of passage in the Illinois House Thursday.

And organizers of a petition drive to get another proposal on the ballot say they've failed to collect enough signatures. Despite their differences, Both proposals actually featured the same key method to fix the state's redistricting process. Illinois Public Media's Jim Meadows reports.