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    The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois in the United...
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    The 2010 United States Senate elections in Illinois took place on November 2, 2010. There were two ballot items for the same seat: a general election,...
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    The 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald decided to retire after...
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    The 2024 elections for the Illinois Senate will occur on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The general primary election for established political parties will...
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    States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently...
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    Barack Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he was elected to the United States Senate. During this part of his career, Obama...
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    States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Illinois. Incumbent...
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    Barack Obama won three Illinois Senate elections. The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in 1997 after his first election in 1996 to a two-year...
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    It has two chambers, the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted...
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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. The...
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    for the Illinois Senate occurred on November 8, 2022 to elect Senators from all of the state's 59 Legislative districts in the Illinois Senate. The primary...
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  • The president of the Illinois Senate is the presiding officer of the Illinois Senate, the upper house of the Illinois General Assembly. The post dates...
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    States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently...
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    of Illinois' U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, both houses of the state legislature, and the governorship. The Democratic Party of Illinois took...
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    state banner on July 6, 1915, following its passage in the Illinois State House and Senate. Governor Edward F. Dunne did not sign the bill, but he did...
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    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...
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  • Republicans also picked up two Illinois congressional seats and a seat in the Illinois Senate. During the 2018 Illinois Elections, Rauner lost to J. B...
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    Senate career of Barack Obama began on January 3, 2005, and ended on November 16, 2008. A member of the Democratic Party from the state of Illinois,...
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    States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently...
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    Kwame Raoul (category Illinois Attorneys General)
    Attorney General of Illinois since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Raoul represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 2004 to 2019...
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    Daniel Biss (category Democratic Party Illinois state senators)
    as mayor of Evanston, Illinois. He previously served as a member of both the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. Prior to pursuing a...
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    Jim Oberweis (category Catholics from Illinois)
    from the state of Illinois. The owner of Oberweis Dairy in North Aurora near Chicago, he served as a member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 25th...
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  • a Republican member of the Illinois Senate. He took office in July 2017 after accepting an appointment to replace Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno...
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    Scott M. Bennett (category Neurological disease deaths in Illinois)
    Democratic member of the Illinois Senate representing the 52nd district from 2015 to 2022. Bennett was born in Gibson City, Illinois, and moved to Champaign...
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    general election was held in the U.S. state of Illinois on November 8, 2022. The elections for United States Senate and United States House of Representatives...
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    The 2008 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 4, 2008. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin sought a third term in...
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  • level, Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois was impeached and unanimously removed from office by the Illinois Senate in 2009 for offenses including abuse...
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    represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he successfully ran for the U.S. Senate. In 2008, after a close primary campaign...
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    Rod Blagojevich (category Boxers from Illinois)
    removed from office in 2009 by the Illinois General Assembly. He was also subsequently barred by the Illinois Senate from holding public office within...
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  • investment banker and politician who was a candidate in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois. In 2000, he retired as an active partner at Goldman Sachs to teach...
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