Question

Rewrite in a 3rd graders response

Many of the congressional districts in Chicago are oddly shaped and stretched out, with long, twisting boundaries. This is because they were drawn to include or split specific communities, an example of gerrymandering.

Answer 1

Some voting areas in Chicago look very twisty and skinny, like snakes. That happened because the people who drew the maps made the lines on purpose to put certain neighborhoods together or split them up. Grown-ups call that gerrymandering — a big word that means drawing voting lines unfairly.