Current Position: US Representative of IL District 1 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
District: Based in Cook County, the district includes much of the South Side of Chicago, and continues southwest to Joliet.  
Upcoming Election:

Jonathan Luther  Jackson is an American  businessman and activist who was previously the national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a financial analyst, and a partner in the Chicago-based beer distributorship River North Sales and Service.

Jackson was born in Chicago, to Jesse Jackson, a noted civil rights activist and Baptist minister, and Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson. His godfather was Martin Luther King Jr., from whom Jackson gets his middle name

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 2 since 2013
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Positions: House Committee on Energy and Commerce
District: Based in the south suburbs of Chicago, the district includes southern Cook county, eastern Will county, and Kankakee county, as well as the city of Chicago’s far southeast side.  
Upcoming Election:

Kelly served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. She then served as chief of staff for Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias until 2010. Kelly earned her Ph.D. in political science from Northern Illinois University in 2004.

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Nearly 37 million Medicare beneficiaries can’t access affordable dental care, putting them at risk for preventable health issues. @RepHorsford & I introduced the Medicare Dental Coverage Act to add dental coverage to Medicare & help keep people healthy.

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Rep. Robin Kelly On Sondland, Ukraine, Impeachment | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 3 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position:  Illinois House of Representatives for the 4th district from 2018 to 2023.
District:  western and southwestern suburbs of Chicago as far as the DuPage County border, as well as portions of the Southwest Side of the city of Chicago itself,    
Upcoming Election:

Delia Ramirez served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 4th district from 2018 to 2023. She was the first Guatemalan American elected to the Illinois General Assembly. Before entering elected office, Ramirez worked and held leadership roles in social service agencies, nonprofit advocacy organizations, and local community organizations.

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 4 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Positions: Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2011 – 2018; State Senator from 1993 – 1999; Chicago City Council from 1986 – 1993
Other Positions:  House Committee on Natural Resources
District:    east–west across the city of Chicago, on the west side continuing into smaller portions of some suburban areas in Cook County, surrounding Illinois’s 7th congressional district.
Upcoming Election

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I joined organizations and progressive colleagues in DC to uplift your voices and say ‘We can’t wait and we won’t wait!’ An infrastructure deal without climate, citizenship, healthcare, and good jobs is NO DEAL! We need bold solutions – the millions counting on us cannot wait!

García was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1986. During his time on the city council, he was known for being a staunch ally of Mayor Harold Washington.[3] In 1992, he became the first Mexican-American member of the Illinois State Senate.

Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García Exposes Big Banks for Exploiting Puerto Rico

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 5 since 2009
Affiliation: Democrat
District: parts of Cook and Lake counties. All or parts of Chicago, Inverness, Arlington Heights, Barrington Hills, Des Plaines, Palatine, Mount Prospect, Deer Park, Kildeer, Lake Zurich, Long Grove, and North Barrington are included.  
Upcoming Election:

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Equal access to abortion care—everywhere—is essential to social and economic participation, reproductive autonomy and the right for women to determine their own lives. That’s why I’m voting for #WHPA on the House floor today. Sept. 24, 2021

Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago’s northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He previously taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago.

Congressman Mike Quigley discusses partisan clash over infrastructure bill
July 4, 2021

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 6 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Renewable Energy Consultant from 1999 – 2019
District:  arts of Cook and DuPage counties   
Upcoming Election:

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You know the guy in your office who always misses deadlines and does shoddy work but when you press him he tells you how many hours he’s put in and wants to talk to you about how important it is he sticks to his process? That’s the US Senate.

Casten began his career working at consultancy Arthur D. Little, where he did fuel chain analyses for the company’s chemical engineering group. From 2000 to 2007, he served as the president and CEO of Turbosteam Corporation, which converted emissions from power plants into energy. Casten was a founding chairman of the Northeast CHP Initiative.He participated in crafting the bill that became the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a program in the northeast United States that attempts to use market forces to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

US Rep Sean Casten joins WGN News at 5 to discuss Robinhood hearing

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 7 since 1997
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Positions: Cook County Board of Commissioners from 1990 – 1997; Member of the Chicago City Council from 1979 – 1990
Other Positions:  Regional Whip, House of Representatives
District:  parts of Cook County. All or parts of Broadview, Bellwood, Chicago, Forest Park, Hillside, Oak Park, La Grange Park, Maywood, and Westchester   
Upcoming Election:

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Given the VAST amount of information pubically available on the extensive damage from the Jan 6th events – I can’t tell if you are trolling or pitifully trolling.

Davis worked as a government clerk, a high school teacher, executive director of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission, director of training at the Martin L. King Neighborhood Health Center, and executive director of the Westside Health Center before entering politics. He represented Chicago’s 29th Ward on the Chicago City Council from 1979 to 1990

Congressman Danny Davis discusses no-knock warrant reform

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 8 since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer and Tech entrepreneur from 1988 – 2017
Other Positions: Co-Founder, Middle Class Jobs Caucus
Co-chair, Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

Krishnamoorthi is the first ever Indian-American or person of South Asian descent to serve as Ranking Member or Chair of any full committee in the U.S. Congress. He also serves as an assistant whip. During law school, Krishnamoorthi was managing editor of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, and published a law review article on the implementation of Local School Councils in Chicago public elementary schools.

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“I am honoured to be appointed as a co-chair of the CAPAC Immigration Task Force alongside co-chair Representative Pramila Jayapal as we continue to fight to ensure our immigration system reflects American values.”

Congressman Krishnamoorthi On Letter To Provide Vaccines Worldwide To Fight COVID Variants

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 9 since 1999
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Program Director for PIRGs from 1976 – 1990
Other Positions: Senior Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives,
House Energy & Commerce Committee, Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee
District: anchored in Chicago’s North Side, along Lake Michigan, and covers many of Chicago’s northern suburbs. 
Upcoming Election:

Schakowsky was Program Director of Illinois Public Action, Illinois’s largest public interest group, from 1976 to 1985. She then moved to the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens as executive director until 1990, when she was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the fourth district.

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Starting today, #ChildTaxCredit payments will begin hitting bank accounts and mailboxes of millions of American families. With the American Rescue Plan, we’re delivering one of the most significant reductions in child poverty ever. Learn more
 
Jan’s Plans & Pans – July 23, 2021

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 10 since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Financial consultant from 1988 – 2017
District: northeast corner of the state and mostly comprises northern suburbs of Chicago.    
Upcoming Election:

Schneider worked as the managing principal of the life insurance firm Davis Dann Adler Schneider, LLC, from 1997 until 2003, when he became the director of the strategic services group at Blackman Kallick. In 2008, he started his own consulting company, Cadence Consulting Group.

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@AlinejadMasih is an Iranian immigrant, an American citizen and champion of human and civil rights. The Iranian regime fears her message. I was honored that she shared with me the stories of countless Iranians risking their lives for freedom. She speaks because they cannot.

Brad Schneider: ‘Our Future’

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 11 since 2013
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Positions:Committee on Financial Services, Task Force on Artificial Intelligence,
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
District: Northern Illinois region, encompassing most of McHenry and Kane Counties, parts of Boone, Lake, DeKalb, DuPage, Cook, and Will Counties.  
Upcoming Election:

George William Foster is a physicist. After completing his Ph.D., Foster moved to the Fox Valley with his family to pursue a career in high-energy (particle) physics at Fermilab, a Department of Energy National Laboratory. Foster was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a member of the team that received the 1989 Bruno Rossi Prize for cosmic ray physics for the discovery of the neutrino burst from the supernova SN 1987A.

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Getting vaccinated is not a partisan act, it’s a patriotic one. I’m proud to join @RepMMM
for a bipartisan call to all Americans: protect yourselves and your loved ones & get vaccinated.

Forum with Congressman/Physicist Bill Foster

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 12 since 2015
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: State Delegate from 1995 – 2015
District: the entirety of Southern Illinois, spanning the Illinois-Missouri-Kentucky-Indiana border.  
Upcoming Election:

Before holding elected office, he was a firefighter. Bost ran his family’s trucking business for ten years. Since 1989, he and his wife Tracy have owned and operated White House Salon in Murphysboro.

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“I am a true believer that local control is better. I believe that our school boards should be able to make decisions on their own. I am not a big government person, and the only concern I have is that the fact is, the governor is taking a very strong step for local control,” Bost said.

 
Bost Speaks Against H.R. 1 mar. 6, 2021

Current Position:  US Representative for District 13 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
District:    Champaign, Urbana, most of Decatur and Springfield, and most of the Metro East of St. Louis
Upcoming Election:

Nikki Budzinski (born 1976/1977) is an American politician and labor union leader. In 2021, Budzinski served as the Chief of Staff to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Biden administration.

She is currently the Democratic nominee for Illinois’ 13th congressional district.

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 14 since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Positions: Committee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Innovation
District:  northern Illinois, surrounding the outer northern and western suburbs of Chicago. 
Upcoming Election:

She graduated with a degree in nursing from the University of Michigan and two master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She began her career as a policy professional in the Obama administration in 2014, later working as a senior advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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The American Families Plan is historic. We can make sure kids in our communities have access to more education — starting with pre-K all the way up to community college!

Lauren on Morning Joe | Momnibus 2021

Current Position: US Representative of IL 15th District since 2021
Affiliation: Republican
District:  encompassing the majority of Central Illinois.  
Upcoming Election:

Miller is a member of the Freedom Caucus and has been described as on the “far right” of the Republican Party. Miller is married to state representative Chris Miller, who represents much of the eastern portion of his wife’s district. They own a farm in Oakland, near Charleston, where they grow grain and raise cattle. They have seven children and 17 grandchildren.

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I will not sit on the sidelines and watch our Constitution be trampled on. We are not descendants of the fearful.

Congresswoman Mary Miller Apologizes For Quoting Hitler In Speech Outside Capitol, Accuses Others Of

Current Position: US Representative of IL District 16 since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative of IL District 16 from 2015-2022; State Senator from 2011 – 2015
District:   southwestern exurbs of the Chicago metropolitan area, and stretches from the Wisconsin border to the Indiana border
Upcoming Election:

He has called himself a fiscal conservative focused on budget issues. LaHood was a prosecutor in the Tazewell County state’s attorney’s office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas. On returning to Peoria in 2005, he took up private law practice;

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My bipartisan Small Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act would provide equitable treatment to the beauty/salon/barber industry, allow these businesses to further support their employees, and promote small business expansion.

Rep. LaHood | Fox Business: Americans Deserve Full Accounting of COVID-19 Origins

Current Position: US House of Representatives for District 17 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Positions: Meteorologist and Communications Manager
District:  Includes most of the northwestern portion of the state, with most of its population living on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, as well as parts of Peoria and Rockford 
Upcoming Election:

He studied communications and meteorology at Northern Illinois University. Sorensen began his career as a meteorologist. He worked as chief meteorologist for WREX, Rockford’s NBC affiliate, from 2003 to 2014, before becoming the senior meteorologist for WQAD, the ABC affiliate of Moline, Illinois. Sorensen became a fellow of the Society for Environmental Journalists in 2018.