SPRINGFIELD — With the midterm elections just over six months away and the 2020 U.S. Census looming, a group of state lawmakers and activists are racing to present voters with a new way to draw Illinois’ political maps.Eight proposed constitutional amendments from members of both parties are slowly working through the legislative process. But the deadline for approving constitutional amendments is less than two weeks away, on May 6.Both chambers of the General Assembly need to approve a proposed amendment by a …