Illinois's 11th congressional district

Illinois's 11th congressional district
Illinois's 11th congressional district – since January 3, 2013.
Current Representative		Bill Foster (D–Naperville)
Area	281 mi2
Distribution	99.7% urban, 0.3% rural
Population (2011 est.)	722,745
Median income	$65,938
Ethnicity	66.5% White, 10.8% Black, 6.9% Asian, 26.6% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American, 12.3% other
Cook PVI	D+8

The 11th Congressional District of Illinois is represented by Democrat Bill Foster.

District boundaries

From 1865 to 1867 the district included Bureau, LaSalle, Livingston and Woodford counties. From 1901 until 1947 the 11th congressional district included Kane, DuPage, McHenry and Will Counties. Following the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1947, the district covered a portion of Cook County and the far northwest side of Chicago roughly centered around Norwood Park. The district was not changed by 1951's redistricting. In 1961, the district was widened westward to the Des Plaines River and east into parts of Lincoln Square. The district covered the northwest side of Chicago until the early 1990s when it moved closer to its current area, encompassing most of LaSalle and Grundy Counties, the southern part of Will County, the northern part of Kankakee County and a small portion of southeastern Cook County. The Illinois Congressional Reapportionment Act of 2001 (10 ILCS 76) defined its boundaries following the U.S. Census 2000.

Following the U.S. Census 2010 the district includes Joliet in Will County, parts of Naperville in southern DuPage County, and Aurora in Kane County. It includes the Argonne National Laboratory.

2011 redistricting

The congressional district covers parts of Cook, Du Page, Kane, Kendall and Will counties, as of the 2011 redistricting which followed the 2010 census. All or parts of Aurora, Bolingbrook, Darien, Joliet, Montgomery, Naperville, Lisle, Downers Grove, New Lenox, Shorewood and Woodridge are included. The representatives for these districts were elected in the 2012 primary and general elections, and the boundaries became effective on January 5, 2013.

Elections

2012 election

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012

Voting

Election results from presidential races
Year	Office	Results
2012	President	Obama 58 – 41%
2008	President	Obama 62 – 37%
2004	President	Bush 53 – 46%
2000	President	Bush 50 – 48%

Representatives

Representative	Party	Years	District Home	Notes
James C. Robinson	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865		Redistricted from the 7th district
Samuel S. Marshall	Democratic	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873		Redistricted to the 19th district
Robert M. Knapp	Democratic	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875
75px Scott Wike	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
Robert M. Knapp	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879
James W. Singleton	Democratic	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883
William Neece	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887
William Gest	Republican	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891
Benjamin Cable	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893
Benjamin F. Marsh	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895		Redistricted to the 15th district
Walter Reeves	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903
Howard Snapp	Republican	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1911
Ira C. Copley	Republican	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915
	Progressive	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917
	Republican	March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1923
Frank Reid	Republican	March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935
Chauncey Reed	Republican	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1949		Redistricted to the 14th district
Chester Chesney	Democratic	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951
Timothy P. Sheehan	Republican	January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1959
75px Roman Pucinski	Democratic	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1973	Chicago
75px Frank Annunzio	Democratic	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1993	Chicago	Redistricted from the 7th district
75px George E. Sangmeister	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995	Joliet	Redistricted from the 4th district
75px Jerry Weller	Republican	January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2009	Joliet	Declined to run for re-election
Debbie Halvorson	Democratic	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011	Crete	Defeated
Adam Kinzinger	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	Manteno	Redistricted to the 16th district
Bill Foster	Democratic	January 3, 2013 -		Defeated in the 14th district in 2010

Historical maps of boundaries

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  Map of the 11th Congressional district from 1895 to 1903. It included Bureau, LaSalle, Livingston and Woodford counties.

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  Map of the 11th Congressional district from 1903 until 1949. It included Kane, DuPage, McHenry and Will counties.

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  Map of the 11th Congressional district from 2003–2013

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  Map of the 11th Congressional district from 2013-

See also

• Illinois's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

• 2002 Census of Agriculture – 11th Congressional District Profile
• District map
• Congressional district profiles
• Washington Post page on the 11th District of Illinois
• U.S. Census Bureau – 11th District Fact Sheet
• Maps
  • Illinois Districts in 1903. (1901 to 1947)
  • Illinois Districts following the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1947.
  • Illinois Districts following the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1951.
  • Illinois Districts following the Congressional Apportionment Act of 1961.

Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 11th congressional district

As of May 2015, three former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 11th congressional district are alive.

Representative	Term in office	Date of birth (and age)
Adam Kinzinger	2011 - 2013	(1978-02-27) February 27, 1978
Debbie Halvorson	2009 - 2011	(1958-03-01) March 1, 1958
Jerry Weller	1995 - 2009	(1957-07-07) July 7, 1957