Next week’s fall veto session will include a Congressional map discussion at the statehouse. Illinois Farm Bureau Director of Governmental Affairs and Commodities Mark Gebhards says there are legitimate criticisms to the mapping process, but the proposed new congressional map does have one benefit for rural interests.

Gebhards says one of the proposed new districts is an open district, stretching from Champaign to Decatur through Springfield and down to the Metro East. He says some of the other newly drawn districts will pit an incumbent vs. an incumbent.