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Illinois is divided into 17 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. The majority of Illinois' districts are located in the Chicago area. The Illinois General Assembly has the primary responsibility of redrawing congressional district lines following each decennial census .
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois.For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Illinois.
The 16th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Republican Darin LaHood.Prominent past representatives from the 16th district have included Everett Dirksen, who went on to become the Republican leader in the United States Senate; John B. Anderson, who became the 3rd highest ranking Republican in the House and went on to run as a major independent candidate in the 1980 ...
Illinois's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and its 17 representatives: 14 Democrats and 3 Republicans. The current dean of the Illinois delegation is Senator Dick Durbin, having served in the Senate since 1997 and in Congress since 1983.
Since 1982, the representative from this district has hailed from a city within Rock Island, County. From 1982-2013, the district's representatives hailed from Rock Island, these being Lane Evans, Phil Hare, and Bobby Schilling. Since 2013, the district's representatives have hailed from neighboring Moline, and include Cheri Bustos and Eric ...
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the 17 U.S. representatives from the State of Illinois, one from each of the state's 17 congressional districts.
The 7th congressional district of Illinois covers parts of Cook County, as of the 2023 redistricting that followed the 2020 census. All or parts of Broadview , Bellwood , Chicago , Forest Park , Hillside , Oak Park , La Grange Park , Maywood , and Westchester are included.
Districts may sometimes retain the same boundaries, while changing their district numbers. The following is a complete list of the 435 current congressional districts for the House of Representatives, and over 200 obsolete districts, and the six current and one obsolete non-voting delegations.