State & Federal Representation

Senator Napoleon Harris III, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-8066

Dolton Office: 702-893-0552

• From Dixmoor
• Graduated from Northwestern University (Communication)
• Serves on Insurance committee (Chair); Commerce committee (Vice-Chair); Energy and Public Utilities committee; Executive committee; subcommittee on Public Health ; Pensions committee; App-Government Infrastructure committee; App- Personnel and Procurement committee (Sub-Chair); App- Revenue and Finance committee; Appropriations committee; Subcommittee on Public Health; Redistricting- South Cook County (Sub-Chair); Executive- Cannabis committee (Sub-Vice-Chair); Executive- Tobacco committee (Sub-Chair); Critical Energy Infra and Grid Rel (Sub-Co-Chair)
• Former NFL linebacker
• Married; two sons

Elgie R. Sims Jr., Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-3201

Chicago Office: 773-933-7715

• Born in Chicago
• B.S. from Illinois State University (Pol. Science)
• Attorney
• Serves on Appropriation committee (Chair), Criminal law committee (Vice-Chair), Ethics committee, Judiciary committee, Public Safety committee, Redistricting committee- Kankakee & Will, Revenue committee
• Married; two children

Michael E. Hastings, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-9595

Frankfort Office: 815-464-5431

• Practicing Attorney
• Veteran; Former US Army Captain; Served in Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Bronze Star recipient
• Former Vice President of High School District #230
• B.S. in Leadership and Management, Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point; MBA with Honors, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; and J.D., The John Marshall Law School
• Serves on the Energy and Public Utilities Committee (Chair); Education Committee; Executive Committee; Insurance Committee; Judiciary Committee; App- Agriculture sub Committee, Envir. & Energy Committee (Sub-Vice-Chair); App- Higher Education sub Committee; Redistricting- South Cook County (Sub-Vice-Chair); Judiciary- Property Law Committee (Sub-Chair); Executive-Consolidation Committee (Sub-Chair); Critical Energy Infra and Grid Rel Committee (Sub-Chair)
• Resides in Frankfort with his wife Katie, son Mikey, and daughter Maddie

Lauran Ellman, Democratic Party

Springfield: 217-782-8192

Naperville: 630-601-9961

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• B.A in Mathematics from Grinnell College
• M.A in Applied Statistics from University of Iowa
• Serves on Financial Institutions committee (Chair); Agriculture committee; Energy and Public Utilities committee (Vice-Chair); Higher Education committee; Transportation committee; App- Revenue and Finance (Sub-Chair); Redistricting- DuPage County (Sub-Vice-Chair); Sub on Next Generation Nuclear (Sub-Chair); Next Generation of Energy committee (Sub-Chair)
• Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, Feed My Starving Children
• Lives in Naperville with husband Pete, daughter Lizzie, and son Barrett

Sue Rezin, Republican Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-3840

Morris Office: 815-220-8720

• Deputy Republican Leader
• Elected to the (House November 2010); Appointed to the (Senate December 2010)
• Chosen as Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate Republican Caucus in 2021
• Serves as the Minority Spokesperson on the Senate Energy and Public Utilities, Education, and Human Rights committees
• Member of the Senate Executive, Health, and Insurance committees, as well as a member of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; the Education Funding Reform Commission, Education Funding Advisory Committee, the Young Adult Heroin Use Task Force, the Social Security Retirement Pay Task Force, the Illinois Veterans Advisory Council, the Task Force on Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation, the Illinois Electric Vehicle Advisory Council, and the Unemployment Insurance Task Force
• Active member of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL); serves on NCSL’s 63-member Executive Committee and Task Force on Energy Supply.
• Helped dozens of students obtain high quality internships.
• Established the Illinois Valley Flood Resiliency Alliance (IVFRA). 
• Graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program
• She and her husband, Keith, reside in Morris and have four children.

Patrick J. Joyce, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-7419

Kankakee Office: 708-756-0882

• Local business owner and fourth-generation farmer
• Grew up in Reddick and has lived in Essex for 24 years with his wife, Rita.
• Focus on health care, the environment and education, and Water quality; long fought for the conservation and protection of the Kankakee River, believes global warming is a true threat to our world and that it’s the General Assembly’s responsibility to promote policies that will protect the Earth for future generations.
• Joyce, with a background in agribusiness and a 25-year history of successfully operating his own small business and family farm, understands the challenges families in the South Suburbs, Kankakee, and surrounding communities face.
• Serves on Agriculture Committee (Chair); Energy and Public Utilities Committee; Health Committee (Vice-Chair); Labor Committee; Local Government; App- Agriculture, Envir. & Energy (Sub-Vice-Chair); Sub committee. on Long-Term Care & Aging (Sub-Chair); Redistricting- Kankakee & Will (Sub-Chair); Next Generation of Energy Committee (Sub-Vice-Chair)

John F. Curran, Republican Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-9407

Lemont Office: 630-914-5733

• Before joining the General Assembly, Curran served as the Vice-Chairman of the DuPage County Board
• 19 years as Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
• B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Juris Doctor Degree from Northern Illinois University College of Law
• Minority Spokesman for the Senate Assignments and the Senate Ethics Committees; serves as a member of the Health, Healthcare Access & Affordability, Higher Education, Licensed Activities and Insurance Committees.
• Sits on the Board of Directors for the Downers Grove Economic Development Corporation
• Curran, his wife, Sue, their four daughters and a niece live in Downers Grove

Linda Holmes, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-0422

Aurora Office: 630-820-8650

• First elected in 2006
• Born in Chicago
• B.A from National College of Education
• First Woman president of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry
• Full-time state legislator
• Sits on Labor committee (Chair); Agriculture committee; Executive committee; Local Government committee; App- Business Regulations and Labor committee (Sub-Chair); Appropriations committee; Redistricting committee- Kane & Kendall (Sub-Chair); Redistricting- Northern Illinois (Sub-Vice-Chair); Executive committee-Consolidation

Eric Mattson, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-8800

Crest Hill Office: 815-207-4445

• Life-long resident of Joliet
• Graduated high school from Joliet Catholic
• Bachelor’s Degree from Lewis University
• Captain for the Joliet Fire Department since 1996
• President of the Joliet Fire Officers Local 2369; President of the Joliet Firemen’s Pension Board of Trustees
• Previously served on the Board for Will County Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army
• Sits on Financial Institutions Committee; Healthcare Access and Availability Committee; Pensions committee

Meg Loughran, Democratic Party

Springfield Office: 217-782-0052

Plainfield Office: 815-267-6119

• Lifelong educator and small business owner; Shorewood Chamber of Commerce member
• Previously served as school teacher’s union representative 
• Former Joliet High School Board member; served as Illinois Association of School Board delegate; former Joliet Township High School Discipline Committee member
• Serves on Behavioral and Mental Health Committee; Commerce Committee; Education Committee (Vice-Chair); Labor Committee; State Government Committee; Appropriations Committee-Education; Appropriations- Emergency Management Committee (Sub-Vice-Chair); Redistricting Committee- Kankakee & Will (Sub-Vice-Chair)
• Resides in Shorewood with her husband Jason and three kids

Bobby L. Rush (1st dist.), Democratic Party

Washington Office: 202-225-4372

Chicago Office: 773-779-2400

• In Office since 1993
• Focused on gun violence, creating jobs, and community safer
• Veteran
• Ordained minister with a degree in Theology
• Pastor of the Beloved Community Christian Church of God in Christ
• Sits on Committee on Energy and Commerce; Chairman of Subcommittee on Energy; subcommittee on Consumer protection and Commerce

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Robin Kelly (2nd dist.), Democratic Party

Washington Office: 202-225-0773

Matteson Office: 708-679-0078

• Daughter of a small business owner and postal worker
• Attended Bradley University in Peoria (B.A. in psychology & M.A in counseling)
• Ph.D. in Pol. Science from North Illinois University
• Elected in 2013
• Vice Chair of House Energy and Commerce Committee
• Serves on the Health, Communications and Technology, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the national security and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, and Consumer Protection and Commerce subcommittees
• Focused on expanding access to healthcare, consumer protection and economic development
• Supporter of common-sense gun reforms
• Co-chair of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce; author of The 2014 Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America
• Lives in Matteson; married to Dr. Nathaniel Horn 

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Marie Newman(3rd dist.), Democratic Party

Washington Office: 202-225-5701

Chicago Office: 773-948-6223

Bridgeview Office: 708-821-1141

• Lifelong resident of her district
• From an “Army family”
• Launched “Team Up” and “Stop Bullying”
• Lifelong advocate for growing small businesses, protecting health care rights, strengthening our infrastructure and building a greener economy
• First woman to represent Illinois’ 3rd district in House of Representatives
• serves on the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, House Committee on Small Business, Congressional Labor Caucus, House Democratic Manufacturing Working Group, Democratic Women’s Caucus and as the Vice Chair of Communications for the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC)
• Supporter of common-sense gun safety laws
• Lives in La Grange; married – two children 

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Bill Foster (11th dist.), Democratic Party

Washington Office: 202-225-3515

Joliet Office: 815-280-5879

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• Bill's father was a civil rights lawyer who wrote much of the enforcement language behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Worked as a high-energy physicist and particle accelerator designer at Fermilab
• Selected to congress in 2013
• Scientist and businessman
• Only PhD physicist in Congress
• Serves on House Financial Services Committee; chairman of the Financial Services Committee’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence; serves on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee; chairman of the Science Committee's Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee
• Focused on evidence-based policies on climate change and energy innovation
• Named to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus
• Lives in Naperville; married; two children

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Lauren Underwood (14th dist.), Democratic Party

Washington Office: 202-225-2976

West Chicago Office: 630-549-2190

Crystal Lake Office: 630-549-2190

• Graduated from Neuqua Valley High school
• Graduate of the University of Michigan and John Hopkins University
• Lives in Naperville
• Elected in 2018
•  Serves on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and the House Committee on Appropriations; member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
• Co-founded and co-chairs the Black Maternal Health Caucus
• member of the Future Forum, a group of young Democratic Members of Congress committed to listening to and standing up for the next generation of Americans, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the LGBT Equality Caucus

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Adam Kinzinger (16th dist.), Republican Party

Washington Office: 202-225-3635

Ottawa Office: 815-431-9271

Watseka Office: 815-432-0580

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• Went to Illinois State University
• Won a McLean County Board seat while a Sophomore
• Serving 6th term in the House of Representatives
• Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• Energy policies are a focal point of politics; U.S. should be independent of foreign energy resources
• Served in the Air Force in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
• Named ‘A Republican Role Model for 2017’ by the Washington Post

Dick Durbin, Democratic Party

Washington Office: (202) 224-2152

Chicago Office: (312) 353-4952

Springfield Office: (217) 492-4062

Carbondale Office: (618) 351-1122

Rock Island Office: (309) 786-5173

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• First elected to Senate in 1996
• Re-elected in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020
• Serves as Senate Majority Whip
• Serves as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Sits on Appropriation  and Agriculture Committees
• Three children, and six grandchildren

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Tammy Duckworth, Democratic Party

Washington Office: (202) 224-2854

Chicago Office: 312) 886-3506

Carbondale Office: (618) 677-7000

Belleville Office: (618) 722-7070

Rock Island Office: (309) 606-7060

Springfield Office: (217) 528-6124

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• Attended University of Hawaii 
• Attended George Washington University (M.A International Affairs)
• Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart recipient
• Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
• Served in the Reserve Force
• Retired as Lieutenant Colonel
• First elected to senate in 2016
• Previously served on the Armed services Committee
• Founded the Senate’s first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus
• Currently serves on Armed Services Committee; the Environment & Public Works Committee; the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee; and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee
• Parent of Two daughters

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