page_title: Luis Gutiérrez
section_title: Constituent services
hierarchical_section_title: Luis Gutiérrez / U.S. House of Representatives / Tenure / Constituent services
caption_attribution_description: English: Mayor Rahm Emanuel assists a 90 year-old great-great-grandmother at Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez' monthly citizenship workshop.
context_page_description: Luis Vicente Gutiérrez is an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. From 1986 until his election to Congress, he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus during his tenure in the House. In the 113th Congress, with his 20 years of service, Gutiérrez became, along with Bobby Rush, the longest serving member of the Illinois House delegation, and so was occasionally referred to as the unofficial "dean" of the delegation.
  Of Puerto Rican descent, he is a former supporter of Puerto Rican independence, and the Vieques movement. Gutiérrez is also an outspoken advocate of workers' rights, LGBT rights, gender equality, and other liberal and progressive causes. In 2010, Frank Sharry of America's Voice, an immigration reform advocacy group, said of Gutiérrez: "He's as close as the Latino community has to a Martin Luther King figure." His supporters have given him the nickname El Gallito – the little fighting rooster – in reference to his fiery oratory and political prowess.
context_section_description: The representative of a culturally diverse district, he has run programs on a local level to increase education levels and knowledge of the English language among immigrants. Within his district, he has run workshops which have helped more than 50,000 people begin the process of becoming US citizens. Gutiérrez's district office was the first congressional office to seek and receive community organization designation as a result of the depth and breadth of constituent services it provides.
caption: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel assists a constituent apply for US citizenship at Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez's monthly citizenship workshop. Since 1993, Congressman Gutierrez has helped over 50,000 immigrants apply for citizenship.
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