Illinois

Illinois is one of the fifty states that make up the United States of America. It was the twenty-first state to join the United States on December 3, 1818. Illinois is the twenty-fifth largest state by area, and the sixth largest by population.
==State Facts==
Name 	Illinois
Capital City 	Springfield
Population 	12, 671, 821  (6/50)
Area 	57, 915 square miles  (25/50)
Counties 	102
Largest Cities	Chicago, Aurora, Naperville, Joliet, Rockford
==Governors==
Number	Name	Party 	Term 	Spouse
1 	
Shadrach Bond
(1773-1832)	Ind. 	1818-22 	Acsah Bond
2 	
Edward Coles
(1786-1868)	Ind. 	1822-26 	Sally Coles
3 	
Ninian Edwards
(1775-1833)	Nat.Rep. 	1826-30 	Elvira Edwards
4 	
John Reynolds
(1788-1865)	Nat. Rep.	1830-34 	Catherine Reynolds
5 	
William Lee D. Ewing
(1795-1846)	Dem. 	1834 	Caroline Ewing
6 	
Joseph Duncan
(1794-1844)	Whig 	1834-38 	Elizabeth Duncan
7 	
Thomas Carlin
(1789-1852)	Dem. 	1838-42 	Rebecca Carlin
8 	
Thomas Ford
(1800-50)	Dem. 	1842-46 	Frances Ford
9 	
Augustus C. French
(1808-64)	Dem. 	1846-53 	Lucy French
10 	
Joel Aldrich Matteson
(1808-73)	Dem. 	1853-57 	Mary Matteson
11 	
William Henry Bissell
(1811-60)	Rep. 	1857-60 	Elizabeth Bissell
12 	
John Wood
(1798-1880)	Rep. 	1860-61 	Ann Wood
13 	
Richard Yates
(1815-73)	Rep. 	1861-65 	Catharine Yates
14 	
Richard J. Oglesby
(1824-99)	Rep. 	1865-69 	Anna Oglesby
15 	
John M. Palmer
(1817-1900)	Rep. 	1869-73 	Malinda Palmer
16 	
Richard J. Oglesby
(1824-99)	Rep. 	1873 	N/A
17 	
John Lourie Beveridge
(1824-1910)	Rep. 	1873-77 	Helen Beveridge
18 	
Shelby Moore Cullom
(1829-1914)	Rep. 	1877-83 	Julia Cullom
19 	
John Marshall Hamilton
(1847-1905)	Rep. 	1883-85 	Helen Hamilton
20 	
Richard J. Oglesby
(1824-99)	Rep. 	1885-89 	Emma Oglesby
21 	
Joseph W. Fifer
(1840-1938)	Rep. 	1889-93 	Gertrude Fifer
22 	
John Peter Altgeld
(1847-1902)	Dem. 	1893-97 	Emma Altgeld
23 	
John Riley Tanner
(1844-1901)	Rep. 	1897-1901	Cora Tanner
24 	
Richard Yates Jr.
(1860-1936)	Rep. 	1901-05 	Helen Yates
25 	
Charles S. Deneen
(1863-1940)	Rep. 	1905-13 	Bina Deneen
26 	
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
(1853-1937)	Dem. 	1913-17 	Elizabeth Dunne
27 	
Frank Orren Lowden
(1861-1943)	Rep. 	1917-21 	Florence Lowden
28 	
Len Small
(1862-1936)	Rep. 	1921-29 	Ida Small
29 	
Louis Lincoln Emmerson
(1863-1941)	Rep. 	1929-33 	Ann Emmerson
30 	
Henry Horner
(1878-1940)	Dem. 	1933-40 	N/A
31 	
John Henry Stelle
(1891-1962)	Dem. 	1940-41 	Wilma Stelle
32 	
Dwight H. Green
(1897-1958)	Rep. 	1941-49 	Mabel Green
33 	
Adlai Stevenson II
(1900-65)	Dem. 	1949-53 	Ellen Stevenson
34 	
William Stratton
(1914-2001)	Rep. 	1953-61 	Shirley Stratton
35 	
Otto Kerner Jr.
(1908-76)	Dem. 	1961-68 	Helena Kerner
36 	
Samuel H. Shapiro
(1907-87)	Dem. 	1968-69 	Gertrude Shapiro
37 	
Richard B. Ogilvie
(1923-88)	Rep. 	1969-73 	Dorothy Ogilvie
38 	
Dan Walker
(1922-2015)	Dem. 	1973-77 	Roberta Walker
39 	
James R. Thompson
(1936-)	Rep. 	1977-91 	Jayne Thompson
40 	
Jim Edgar
(1946-)	Rep. 	1991-99 	Brenda Edgar
41 	
George Ryan
(1934-)	Rep. 	1999-2003	Lura Lynn Ryan
42 	
Rod Blagojevich
(1956-)	Dem. 	2003-09 	Patricia Blagojevich
43 	
Pat Quinn
(1948-)	Dem. 	2009-15 	N/A
44 	
Bruce Rauner
(1956-)	Rep. 	2015-19 	Diana Rauner
45 	
J. B. Pritzker
(1965-)	Dem. 	2019-Pr. 	Mary Pritzker
==U.S. Senators (Class 2 and Class 3)==
Class 2 (Next Election in 2026)
Number	Name	Political Party 	Term
1. 	Jesse B. Thomas
(1777-1853)	National Republican	1818-29
(11 years)
2. 	John McLean
(1791-1830)	Democratic 	1829-30
(1 year)
3. 	David J. Baker
(1792-1869)	Democratic 	1830
(29 days)
4. 	John M. Robinson
(1794-1843)	Democratic 	1830-41
(11 years)
5. 	Samuel McRoberts
(1799-1843)	Democratic 	1841-43
(2 years)
6. 	James Semple
(1798-1866)	Democratic 	1843-47
(4 years)
7. 	Stephen A. Douglas
(1813-61)	Democratic 	1847-61
(14 years)
8. 	Orville Hickman Browning
(1806-81)	Republican 	1861-63
(2 years)
9. 	William Alexander Richardson
(1811-75)	Democratic 	1863-65
(2 years)
10. 	Richard Yates
(1815-73)	Republican 	1865-71
(6 years)
11. 	John A. Logan
(1826-86)	Republican 	1871-77
(6 years)
12. 	David Davis
(1815-86)	Independent 	1877-83
(6 years)
13. 	Shelby Moore Cullom
(1829-1914)	Republican 	1883-1913
(30 years)
14. 	J. Hamilton Lewis
(1863-1939)	Democratic 	1913-19
(6 years)
15. 	Medill McCormick
(1877-1925)	Republican 	1919-25
(6 years)
16. 	Charles S. Deneen
(1863-1940)	Republican 	1925-31
(6 years)
17. 	J. Hamilton Lewis
(1863-1939)	Democratic 	1931-39
(8 years)
18. 	James M. Slattery
(1878-1948)	Democratic 	1939-40
(1 year)
19. 	Charles W. Brooks
(1897-1957)	Republican 	1940-49
(9 years)
20. 	Paul Douglas
(1892-1976)	Democratic 	1949-67
(18 years)
21. 	Charles H. Percy
(1919-2011)	Republican 	1967-85
(18 years)
22. 	Paul Simon
(1928-2003)	Democratic 	1985-97
(12 years)
23. 	Dick Durbin
(1944-)	Democratic 	1997-Present
(24 years)
Class 3 (Next Election in 2022)
Number	Name	Political Party 	Term
1. 	Ninian Edwards
(1775-1833)	Democratic-Republican	1818-24
(6 years)
2. 	John McLean
(1791-1830)	Democratic-Republican	1824-25
(1 year)
3. 	Elias Kane
(1794-1835)	Democratic 	1825-35
(10 years)
4. 	William Lee D. Ewing
(1795-1846)	Democratic 	1835-37
(2 years)
5. 	Richard M. Young
(1798-1861)	Democratic 	1837-43
(6 years)
6. 	Sidney Breese
(1800-78)	Democratic 	1843-49
(6 years)
7. 	James Shields
(1806-79)	Democratic 	1849-55
(6 years)
8. 	Lyman Trumbull
(1813-96)	Republican 	1855-73
(18 years)
9. 	Richard J. Oglesby
(1824-99)	Republican 	1873-79
(6 years)
10. 	John A. Logan
(1826-86)	Republican 	1879-86
(7 years)
11. 	Charles B. Farwell
(1823-1901)	Republican 	1887-91
(4 years)
12. 	John M. Palmer
(1817-1900)	Democratic 	1891-97
(6 years)
13. 	William E. Mason
(1850-1921)	Republican 	1897-1903
(6 years)
14. 	Albert J. Hopkins
(1846-1922)	Republican 	1903-09
(6 years)
15. 	William Lorimer
(1861-1934)	Republican 	1909-12
(3 years)
16. 	Lawrence Yates Sherman
(1858-1939)	Republican 	1913-21
(8 years)
17. 	William B. McKinley
(1856-1926)	Republican 	1921-26
(5 years)
18. 	Frank L. Smith
(1867-1950)	Republican 	1926-28
(2 years)
19. 	Otis F. Glenn
(1879-1959)	Republican 	1928-33
(5 years)
20. 	William H. Dieterich
(1868-1940)	Democratic 	1933-39
(6 years)
21. 	Scott W. Lucas
(1892-1968)	Democratic 	1939-51
(12 years)
22. 	Everett Dirksen
(1896-1969)	Republican 	1952-69
(17 years)
23. 	Ralph Tyler Smith
(1915-72)	Republican 	1969-70
(1 year)
24. 	Adlai Stevenson III
(1930-)	Democratic 	1970-81
(11 years)
25. 	Alan J. Dixon
(1927-2014)	Democratic 	1981-93
(12 years)
26. 	Carol Moseley Braun
(1947-)	Democratic 	1993-99
(6 years)
27. 	Peter Fitzgerald
(1960-)	Republican 	1999-2005
(6 years)
28. 	Barack Obama
(1961-)	Democratic 	2005-08
(3 years)
29. 	Roland Burris
(1937-)	Democratic 	2009-10
(1 year)
30. 	Mark Kirk
(1959-)	Republican 	2010-17
(7 years)
31. 	Tammy Duckworth
(1968-)	Democratic 	2017-Present
(4 years)