Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie (R-Lake Zurich) (left) and House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the new legislative redistricting maps.  

Illinois’ top Republican legislators on Wednesday filed the first federal lawsuit challenging Democrats’ recently approved and enacted legislative redistricting maps. 

In a 39-page complaint filed in the Northern District of Illinois, Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie (R-Lake Zurich) and House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) are “challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of state legislative districts.”