Aldermen who support the “Chicago United Map” drawn under leadership of the rules committee during a March news conference. [Alex Nitkin / The Daily Line]

As the city’s contentious ward remap feud continues to simmer through a series of letters exchanged between two groups of aldermen who support competing ward maps, the alderman in charge of the process says she plans to look to Springfield to make passing future ward remaps easier. And as negotiations remain stalled, she says she has found the leader of the competing group to be “sexist” in his handling of the negotiating process.