Illinois's_13th_Senate_district

Illinois's 13th
State Senate district
Illinois's 13th; State Senate district
	The 13th district since 2023.
Senator
	Robert Peters; D–Chicago
Demographics	23.5% White; 55.0% Black; 12.8% Hispanic; 9.0% Asian; 1.7% Native American; 0.2% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Population (2020); • Voting age; • Citizens of voting age	217,228; 180,325; 153,965

Illinois's 13th Senate district

American legislative district

Illinois’ 13th Senate district is one of 59 districts in the Illinois Senate. The seat stretches along the southern shoreline of Lake Michigan, from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile to the Indiana border. The seat is home to several Chicago landmarks, including Navy Pier, Millennium Park, Grant Park, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium, Soldier Field, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the University of Chicago. Neighborhoods located within its boundaries include Streeterville and the South Side communities of Kenwood, Hyde Park, and South Chicago.

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The 13th district is home to 119,000 Black residents, who comprise a majority of the seat’s 217,000 total inhabitants. In recent years, this has made the seat a launching pad for several Black elected officials in Illinois. Notable examples include former President Barack Obama, who springboarded from this seat to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and state Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who represented the district from 2004 to 2019.

Democrats have held this seat with ease for more than six decades. In 2020, Joe Biden (who spent eight years as Obama’s vice president) carried it by an 89%-10% margin over Donald Trump.

Legislative district history

Prior to the ratification of the 1848 Illinois Constitution, counties (or two or more counties) were designated a certain number of Senators and Representatives. With the ratification of the 1848 Illinois Constitution, Legislative and Representative districts were numbered and called by name. Each district was still assigned a certain number of Senators and Representatives. After the passage of the 1872 Apportionment, only Legislative districts were drawn with Representatives elected cumulatively. The 1954 amendment to the 1870 Illinois Constitution established Representative districts as separate from Legislative districts (with representatives still elected cumulatively). The boundaries of Representative and Legislative districts would differ.^[1] After the United States Supreme Court ruled in Reynolds v. Sims (1964) that "both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned according to districts of equal population," new districts were redrawn for the Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives. While the Legislative districts were redrawn, the Governor and General Assembly failed to agree on Representative district boundaries. Under the 1954 amendment, "a 10-man bipartisan commission appointed by the governor from recommendations made by both parties" were directed to redraw boundaries but failed to do so in 1963. Because of this failure, and with no district boundaries redrawn, all Representative districts were temporarily merged into one at-large district with 177 representatives (the total number of representatives at the time). The 1964 Illinois House election had several candidates running for all 177 seats throughout the state.^[2] In 1965, the Representative districts were redrawn by the Illinois Legislative Reapportionment Commission and elections held in 1966 were done with separate districts.^[3] With the 1971 Apportionment (and adoption of the 1970 Illinois Constitution), Representative districts were abolished and representatives were once again elected cumulatively per Legislative district.^[4] After the passage of the Cutback Amendment in 1980, the number of Representatives was reduced from 177 to 118 with Representative districts re-established and now electing a single representative.

List of senators

1873–present

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Senator^[5]	Party	Years^{[lower-alpha 1]}^{[lower-alpha 2]}	General Assembly (GA)	Electoral History	Counties Represented
Apportionment of 1872 now gives the district one senator and three representatives to elect.
Miles B. Castle	Republican	January 8, 1873 – January 8, 1879	28th 29th 30th	Elected in 1872 Re-elected in 1874 Was not re-elected in 1878.	DeKalb Grundy Kendall
John R. Marshall	Republican	January 8, 1879 – January 3, 1883	31st 32nd	Elected in 1878 Was not re-elected in 1882.	DeKalb Grundy Kendall
Millard B. Hereley	Democratic	January 3, 1883 – January 5, 1887	33rd 34th	Elected in 1882 Was not re-elected in 1886.	Cook
Michael F. Garrity	Republican	January 5, 1887 – January 7, 1891	35th 36th	Elected in 1886 Lost re-election in 1890.
John F. O'Malley	Democratic	January 7, 1891 – January 2, 1895	37th 38th	Elected in 1890 Was not re-elected in 1894.
Joseph P. Mahoney	Democratic	January 2, 1895 – January 7, 1903	39th 40th 41st 42nd	Redistricted from the 5th Legislative district and re-elected in 1894 Re-elected in 1898 Was not re-elected in 1902.
Albert C. Clark	Republican	January 7, 1903 – January 6, 1915	43rd 44th 45th 46th 47th 48th	Elected in 1902 Re-elected in 1906 Re-elected in 1910 Retired.
John A. Swanson		January 6, 1915 – 1917	49th	Elected in 1914 Resigned to become a judge in 1917.
John A. Swanson		January 6, 1915 – 1917	50th	Elected in 1914 Resigned to become a judge in 1917.
Vacant		1917 – April 1917	50th
Albert C. Clark	Republican	April 1917 – January 5, 1927	50th 51st 52nd 53rd 54th	Elected back in 1917 special election Re-elected in 1918 Re-elected in 1922 Retired.
Harry W. Starr	Republican	January 5, 1927 – January 7, 1931	55th 56th	Elected in 1926 Lost re-election in 1930.
Francis J. Loughran	Democratic	January 7, 1931 – January 6, 1943	57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd	Elected in 1930 Re-elected in 1934 Re-elected in 1938 Lost re-election in 1942.
Walker Butler	Republican	January 6, 1943 – 1953/1954	63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th	Elected in 1942 Re-elected in 1946 Re-elected in 1950 Resigned after being elected a judge of the Superior Court of Cook County in 1953.
Vacant		1953/1954 – January 5, 1955	68th
Daniel Dougherty	Democratic	January 5, 1955 – January 4, 1967	69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th	Elected in 1954 Re-elected in 1958 Re-elected in 1962 Re-districted to the 30th Legislative district and re-elected in 1966.
James P. Loukas		January 4, 1967 – January 13, 1971	75th 76th	Elected in 1966 Retired.
Ben E. Palmer		January 13, 1971 – January 10, 1973	77th	Elected in 1970 Redistricted to the 12th Legislative district and re-elected in 1972.
Dawn Clark Netsch		January 10, 1973 – January 12, 1983	78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd	Elected in 1972 Re-elected in 1974 Re-elected in 1978 Redistricted to the 4th Legislative district and re-elected in 1982.
Richard H. Newhouse Jr.		January 12, 1983 – May 29, 1991	83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	Redistricted from the 24th Legislative district and re-elected in 1982 Re-elected in 1984 Re-elected in 1988 Resigned in 1991.^[10]
Vacant		May 29, 1991 – June 6, 1991	87th
Alice Palmer	Democratic	June 6, 1991 – January 8, 1997	87th 88th 89th	Appointed in 1991 Elected in 1992 Failed to qualify for nomination and lost renomination in 1996.
Barack Obama	Democratic	January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004	90th 91st 92nd 93rd	Elected in 1996 Re-elected in 1998 Re-elected in 2002 Elected U.S. Senator from Illinois and resigned his state senate seat in 2004.
Vacant		November 4, 2004 – November 6, 2004	93rd
Kwame Raoul	Democratic	November 6, 2004 – January 5, 2019	93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th	Appointed in 2004 Elected in 2006 Re-elected in 2010 Re-elected in 2012 Re-elected in 2016 Elected Illinois Attorney General in 2018.
Vacant		January 5, 2019 – January 6, 2019	100th
Robert Peters	Democratic	January 6, 2019 – present	100th 101st	Appointed in 2019 Elected in 2020

Senator election results

Historical list of representatives

1873 – 1957

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Representative^[5]	Party	Party Control	Years^{[lower-alpha 1]}^{[lower-alpha 2]}	General Assembly (GA)	Electoral History	Counties Represented
Apportionment of 1872 now gives the district one senator and three representatives to elect.
Perry A. Armstrong	Democratic	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 8, 1873 – January 6, 1875	28th	Elected in 1872 Was not re-elected in 1874.	DeKalb Grundy Kendall
George M. Hollenback	Republican
Lyman Beecher Ray
D. B. Bailey		2 Independents 1 Republican	January 6, 1875 – January 3, 1877	29th	Elected in 1874 Was not re-elected in 1876.
Philip Collins	Independent
Joshua McGrath	Independent
William M. Byers	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 3, 1877 – January 5, 1881	30th 31st	Elected in 1876 Re-elected in 1878 Was not re-elected in 1880.
Amos D. Clover	Democratic		January 3, 1877 – January 8, 1879	30th	Elected in 1876 Was not re-elected in 1878.
Peter S. Lott	Republican		January 3, 1877 – January 8, 1879	30th	Elected in 1876 Was not re-elected in 1878.
Robert M. Brigham	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Greenback	January 8, 1879 – January 5, 1881	31st	Elected in 1878 Was not re-elected in 1880.
Alonzo B. Smith	Greenback	2 Republicans 1 Greenback	January 8, 1879 – January 5, 1881	31st	Elected in 1878 Was not re-elected in 1880.
John C. Clark	Democratic	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883 ^{[lower-alpha 6]}	32nd	Served during the 32nd GA Was not re-elected in 1882.
Hiram Loucks	Republican				Served during the 32nd GA Was not re-elected in 1882.
Henry Wood	Republican				Served during the 32nd GA Redistricted to the 17th Legislative district and re-elected in 1882.
Benton F. Kleeman	Unknown	Unknown			Served during the 32nd GA Was not re-elected in 1882.
John F. Dugan	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 3, 1883 – January 7, 1885	33rd	Elected in 1882 Was not re-elected in 1884.	Cook
Gregory A. Klupp	Democratic		January 3, 1883 – January 7, 1885	33rd	Elected in 1882 Lost re-election.
Peter Sundelius	Republican		January 3, 1883 – January 5, 1887	33rd 34th	Elected in 1882 Re-elected in 1884 Was not re-elected in 1886.
Barney Brachtendorf	Democratic		January 7, 1885 – January 5, 1887	34th	Elected in 1884 Lost re-election.
Thomas F. Mulheran	Democratic		January 7, 1885 – January 5, 1887	34th	Elected in 1884 Was not re-elected in 1886.
Victor Carlowski	Socialist	1 Democrat 1 Republican 1 Socialist	January 5, 1887 – January 9, 1889	35th	Elected in 1886 Was not re-elected in 1888.
J. J. Furlong	Democratic
Frank E. Schoenwald	Republican
Stanley H. Kunz	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 9, 1889 – January 7, 1891	36th	Elected in 1888 Was not re-elected in 1890.
William H. Lyman	Democratic		January 9, 1889 – January 4, 1893	36th 37th	Elected in 1888 Re-elected in 1890
Peter Sundelius	Republican		January 9, 1889 – January 7, 1891	36th	Elected back in 1888 Was not re-elected in 1890.
Samuel E. Erickson	Republican		January 7, 1891 – January 4, 1893	37th	Elected in 1890
John A. Kwasigroch	Democratic		January 7, 1891 – January 4, 1893	37th	Elected in 1890
Samuel E. Erickson	Republican		January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895	38th	Re-elected in 1892 Was not re-elected in 1894.
John A. Kwasigroch	Democratic				Re-elected in 1892 Was not re-elected in 1894.
William H. Lyman	Democratic				Re-elected in 1892 Redistricted to the 23rd Legislative district and re-elected in 1894.
James P. Cavanagh	Republican		January 9, 1895 – January 7, 1903	39th 40th 41st 42nd	Elected in 1894 Re-elected in 1896 Re-elected in 1898 Re-elected in 1900 Redistricted to the 15th Legislative district and re-elected in 1902.
Edward J. Novak	Democratic		January 9, 1895 – January 4, 1899	39th 40th	Redistricted from the 5th Legislative district and re-elected in 1894 Re-elected in 1896 Was not re-elected in 1898.
Simon Shaffer			January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897	39th	Elected in 1894 Lost re-election in 1896.
William Carmody			January 6, 1897 – January 7, 1903	40th 41st 42nd	Elected in 1896 Re-elected in 1898 Re-elected in 1900 Was not re-elected in 1902.
John Churan			January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901	41st	Elected in 1898 Was not re-elected in 1900.
Cyril R. Jandus			January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903	42nd	Elected in 1900 Elected state Senator from the 15th Legislative district in 1902.
Henry V. Meeteren		2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905	43rd	Elected in 1902 Was not re-elected in 1904.
Benton F. Kleeman	Republican		January 7, 1903 – January 9, 1907	43rd 44th	Elected in 1902 Re-elected in 1904 Was not re-elected in 1906.
James Herbert Wilkerson			January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905	43rd	Elected in 1902 Was not re-elected in 1904.
William T. Monroe			January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907	44th	Elected in 1904 Was not re-elected in 1906.
John J. Poulton	Democratic		January 4, 1905 – January 4, 1911	44th 45th 46th	Elected in 1904 Re-elected in 1906 Re-elected in 1908 Was not re-elected in 1910.
Edward C. Fitch	Republican		January 9, 1907 – January 6, 1909	45th	Elected in 1906 Was not re-elected in 1908.
Cornelius J. Ton			January 9, 1907 – January 4, 1911	45th 46th	Elected in 1906 Re-elected in 1908 Was not re-elected in 1910.
Benton F. Kleeman			January 6, 1909 – January 6, 1915	46th 47th 48th	Elected back in 1908 Re-elected in 1910 Re-elected in 1912 Was not re-elected in 1914.
John A. Swanson			January 4, 1911 – January 8, 1913	47th	Elected in 1910 Lost re-election in 1912.
Timothy Dunne	Democratic		January 4, 1911 – January 8, 1913	47th	Elected in 1910 Lost re-election in 1912.
Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg	Progressive	1 Progressive 1 Republican 1 Socialist	January 8, 1913 – January 6, 1915	48th	Elected in 1912 Was not re-elected in 1914.
Seymour Stedman	Socialist	1 Progressive 1 Republican 1 Socialist	January 8, 1913 – January 6, 1915	48th	Elected in 1912 Was not re-elected in 1914.
James W. Ryan	Democratic	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 6, 1915 – January 3, 1923	49th 50th 51st 52nd	Elected in 1914 Re-elected in 1916 Re-elected in 1918 Re-elected in 1920 Was not re-elected in 1922.
Gotthard A. Dahlberg	Republican		January 6, 1915 – January 7, 1925	49th 50th 51st 52nd 53rd	Elected in 1914 Re-elected in 1916 Re-elected in 1918 Re-elected in 1920 Re-elected in 1922 Was not re-elected in 1924.
C. A. Young	Republican		January 6, 1915 – January 3, 1923	49th 50th 51st 52nd	Elected in 1914 Re-elected in 1916 Re-elected in 1918 Re-elected in 1920 Lost renomination in 1922.
William W. Powers	Democratic		January 3, 1923 – January 4, 1939	53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th	Elected in 1922 Re-elected in 1924 Re-elected in 1926 Re-elected in 1928 Re-elected in 1930 Re-elected in 1932 Re-elected in 1934 Re-elected in 1936 Retired.
Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg	Republican		January 3, 1923 – January 3, 1945	53rd 54th 55th 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd	Elected back in 1922 Re-elected in 1924 Re-elected in 1926 Re-elected in 1928 Re-elected in 1930 Re-elected in 1932 Re-elected in 1934 Re-elected in 1936 Re-elected in 1938 Re-elected in 1940 Re-elected in 1942 Retired.
Theo D. Smith	Republican		January 7, 1925 – January 5, 1927	54th	Elected in 1924 Lost re-election in 1926.
John C. Garriott, Jr.	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 5, 1927 – January 4, 1933	55th	Elected in 1926 Re-elected in 1928 Re-elected in 1930 Retired.
John C. Garriott, Jr.	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 5, 1927 – January 4, 1933	56th 57th
John G. Ryan	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 4, 1933 – January 9, 1957	58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th	Elected in 1932 Re-elected in 1934 Re-elected in 1936 Re-elected in 1938 Re-elected in 1940 Re-elected in 1942 Re-elected in 1944 Re-elected in 1946 Re-elected in 1948 Re-elected in 1950 Re-elected in 1952 Re-elected in 1954 Redistricted to the 25th Representative district and re-elected in 1956.
Adam S. Mioduski	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 4, 1939 – January 6, 1943	61st 62nd	Elected in 1938 Re-elected in 1940 Lost re-election.
Ragnar G. Nelson	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 6, 1943 – January 5, 1949	63rd 64th 65th	Elected in 1942 Re-elected in 1944 Re-elected in 1946 Lost re-election.
Adam S. Mioduski	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 3, 1945 – January 8, 1947	64th	Elected back in 1944 Lost re-election.
Edward Schneider	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 8, 1947 – January 9, 1957	65th 66th 67th 68th 69th	Elected in 1946 Re-elected in 1948 Re-elected in 1950 Re-elected in 1952 Re-elected in 1954 Redistricted to the 25th Representative district and re-elected in 1956.
Adam S. Mioduski	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 5, 1949 – January 3, 1951	66th	Elected back in 1948 Lost re-election.
Marie H. Suthers	Republican	2 Republicans 1 Democrat	January 3, 1951 – January 7, 1953	67th	Elected in 1950 Lost re-election.
Henry M. Lenard	Democratic	2 Democrats 1 Republican	January 7, 1953 – January 9, 1957	68th 69th	Elected in 1952 Re-elected in 1954 Redistricted to the 24th Representative district and re-elected in 1956.
Representative districts re-established in 1957