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The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature, composed of the 118-member Illinois House of Representatives and the 59-member Illinois Senate. Representatives elect from their chamber a Speaker and Speaker pro tempore, and senators elect from the chamber a President of the Senate.
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 list of names should be complete as of January 3, 2019, but other data may be incomplete. Illinois became the 21st state on December 3, 1818.
The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. As of 2023, the current General Assembly is the 103rd; the term of an assembly lasts two years. Under the Illinois Constitution, since 1983 the Senate has had 59 members and the House has had 118 members. In both chambers, all members are elected from single ...
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly.The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for two-year terms with no limits; redistricted every 10 years, based on the 2010 U.S. census ...
The Democratic Party of Illinois is run by a Democratic State Central Committee of 34 members, two from each of the state's 17 congressional districts. The Central Committee has four officers: a chairman, a vice-chair, a secretary, and a treasurer. Calvin Sutker of Skokie served as state party chairman until 1986 when he lost his committeeman ...
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 101st General Assembly enacted a total of 673 bills into law. [4] Notable among these was the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act ( 410 ILCS 705 ), which legalizes and regulates the production, consumption, and sale of cannabis in Illinois. It was approved by both houses by May 31, 2019, and came into effect January 1, 2020.
C. D. Davidsmeyer. Christopher "C.D." Davidsmeyer (born 1979), is a member of the Illinois House of Representatives who has served in the Illinois House of Representatives since his appointment in December 2012. [1] He represents the 100th district which includes all or parts of Adams County, Brown County, Calhoun County, Greene County, Jersey ...