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Illinois Elected Officials & 2026 Candidates

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Illinois
2026 elections & officials.

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19federal offices
19federal holders
177state legislators
1912026 filings
129active or funded

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Illinois
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Dates for November 3

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Partial coverage: only the dated entries below have been checked. Confirm other deadlines and exceptions with your election office.

Illinois · Sourced election dates
ActionDateDetails and source
Register online
Passed		Last day to register on the State Board website; grace-period options remain.
Official source ↗
Early voting ends
12 days left		Early in-person voting continues through this date; check local hours.
Official source ↗
Request mail ballot
8 days left		Mailed-ballot requests must be received by the election authority.
Official source ↗

Checked 2026-10-16. Confirm local details and exceptions with your election office.

Election administration · official links

Executive Director of the Illinois State Board of Elections

County Clerk, County Election Commissioner, Municipal Election Commissions administer elections across 108 reported local jurisdictions. Get the source profile, registration guide, rules, and calendar.

Statewide executive · current sourced record

Governor of Illinois

A permanent office record joined to the current holder and official government website.

JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois
Governor

JB Pritzker

Current roster matched to the official office website

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Current delegation

Who represents Illinois in Washington?

Each link opens the permanent seat record—not a temporary biography—so history survives elections and vacancies.

Current state legislature · sourced public records

177 current legislators across 177 permanent offices

Open States supplies the normalized roster. When one of its contact or portrait fields is empty, Electionpedia can fill that gap only from a name-matched official legislative page and keeps the source attached to that individual field.

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Official 2026 congressional calendar

Illinois election dates

Dates below are transcribed from the Federal Election Commission's published congressional calendar. They are subject to change and should be confirmed with Illinois's election authority.

Congressional primaryMar 17, 2026
Federal general electionNov 3, 2026

Nationwide scheduled date

The FEC publishes this calendar but does not administer elections or determine ballot access. Verify the FEC calendar PDF ↗
Local elected officials

53 permanent local office records across 1 directory

Each directory is published only after its official roster passes a locality-specific completeness contract. Address lookup assigns a district only where Electionpedia also has a supported official boundary.

Official local roster

Chicago elected officials

53 source-linked permanent office records, including all 50 wards.

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2026 federal field

191 FEC candidate records for Illinois

Candidate filing does not guarantee ballot qualification. Financial totals appear only where the FEC bulk summary publishes them.

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How the page stays current

Sources and update dates

The federal layer is rebuilt from the public-domain congressional corpus, the state layer from Open States People, and the candidate and money layer from FEC bulk files. Connected pages use the same stored records. Their source dates show when those records were last checked; a scheduled job is not proof that a refresh succeeded.