Illinois's 10th congressional district

The 10th congressional district of Illinois lies in the northeast corner of the state, and mostly comprises northern suburbs of Chicago. It was created after the 1860 census. The district is currently represented by Democrat Brad Schneider.

Illinois's 10th congressional district
Illinois's 10th congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative	Brad Schneider D–Deerfield
Area	300 sq mi (780 km^2)
Distribution	99.7% urban 0.3% rural
Population (2011 est.)	705,564
Median income	$80,229[1]
Ethnicity	76.6% white 21.6% Hispanic 9.6% Asian 7.0% black 4.4% other 2.3% Two or more races 0.1% Native American 0.0% Pacific Islands Americans
Cook PVI	D+10[2][3]

2011 redistricting

The district covers parts of Cook and Lake counties, as of the 2011 redistricting which followed the 2010 census. All or parts of Beach Park, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Fox Lake, Glencoe, Grayslake, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Lake Villa, Lindenhurst, Libertyville, Morton Grove, Mundelein, North Chicago, Northbrook, Prospect Heights, Round Lake, Round Lake Beach, Vernon Hills, Waukegan, Wheeling and Zion are included.[4] The boundaries became effective on January 3, 2013.

District characteristics

Economy

The 10th is home to several Fortune 500 Companies, including but not limited to: CDW, Walgreens, Underwriters Laboratories, Baxter Healthcare, AbbVie, Allstate Insurance and Mondelez International.

Military

The Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, hosting the United States Navy's only boot camp, trains 38,000 recruits each year. 5.2% of the district's inhabitants have performed military service.[3]

History

The area of the district was originally represented by one of Abraham Lincoln's closest allies, Elihu B. Washburne (R-Waukegan). The district was created in 1982 redistricting out of districts represented by John Porter (R-Wilmette) and Robert McClory (R-Lake Bluff). On the retirement of McClory, the district was represented by Porter after winning the elections of 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, and 1998. Following Porter's retirement, 11 Republicans and two Democrats ran to succeed him. Eventually 9 Republicans and one Democrat stood for election in the primary of March 2000. John Porter's former Chief of Staff, Mark Kirk, won the Republican primary over number two rival Shaun Donnely. Kirk then defeated State Representative Lauren Beth Gash (D-Highland Park) by 2% in the 2000 general election. Kirk remained in Congress until he decided to run for the United States Senate in the 2010 election. He was succeeded by Republican Robert Dold.

Elections

2006 election

Republican candidate for Governor, Judy Baar Topinka, and GOP candidate for Cook County Board President Tony Peraica both handily won the district in 2006, although both lost in the state- and countywide (respectively) count.

2008 election

Dan Seals, who had previously run against Mark Kirk in 2006, defeated Clinton Advisor Jay Footlik for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Dave Kalbfleisch received the Green Party nomination, but was removed from the ballot by the Illinois State Board of Elections.[5][6] Independent candidate Allan Stevo was also nominated.[7] Mark Kirk defeated Dan Seals in their rematch from 2006 by 54% to 46%, thus winning a fifth term in the House.

2010 election

The Republican Party nominee, Robert Dold, won against the Democratic Party nominee, Dan Seals.

2012 election

Robert Dold no longer lives in the redrawn district,[8] but said he would move into the district if he won re-election.[9]

Candidates for the Democratic nomination were: Ilya Sheyman, a community organizer from Waukegan,[10] Brad Schneider, a business consultant,[11] John Tree, a business executive and Colonel in the Air Force Reserve,[12] and Vivek Bavda, an intellectual property attorney.[13]

In the March 20, 2012 primary, Brad Schneider won the Democratic nomination.[14] Schneider defeated Dold in the general election in November.

2014 election

Brad Schneider, the incumbent, was selected to be the Democratic nominee, and Robert Dold was once again selected to be the Republican nominee. Dold won the election with just over 50% of the vote.

2016 election

Brad Schneider defeated Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering for the Democratic nomination on March 15.[15] Democrat Brad Schneider defeated Republican Robert Dold by nearly 5% (14,000 votes), the largest victory margin in Illinois's 10th Congressional district since redistricting.

2018 election

Brad Schneider, the incumbent, defeated his republican challenger Douglas R. Bennett with 65.6% of the vote.[16] There were three Republican candidates who ran in the primary: Bennett of Deerfield, who is a computer consultant and vice chairman of the West Deerfield Township Republican Organization, Libertyville physician and business owner Sapan Shah, and Jeremy Wynes of Highland Park.[17]

Robert Dold declined to run for a fifth time. [18]

On March 20, Douglas Bennett narrowly beat Wynes and Shah in the primary.[19]

2018 Republican Primary results

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Douglas Bennett	8,484	35.6%
Jeremy Wynes	8,225	34.6%
Sapan Shah	7,093	29.8%

Recent election results

U.S. President

2000	Al Gore (D) 51 - 47%
2004	John Kerry (D) 52 - 47%
2008	Barack Obama (D) 63 - 36%[3]
2012	Barack Obama (D) 58 - 41%[3]
2016	Hillary Clinton (D) 61 - 32%

U.S. Representative

Year	Republican candidate	Republican percentage	Democratic candidate	Democratic percentage
2000	Kirk	51	Gash	49
2002	Kirk	69	Perritt	31
2004	Kirk	65	Goodman	35
2006	Kirk	53.4	Seals	46.6
2008	Kirk	52.6	Seals	47.4
2010	Dold	51.1	Seals	48.8
2012	Dold	49.4	Schneider	50.6
2014	Dold	51.3	Schneider	48.7
2016	Dold	47	Schneider	53
2018	Bennett	34.4	Schneider	65.6

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created March 4, 1863
Anthony L. Knapp	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	38th	Redistricted from the 6th district.
Anthony Thornton	Democratic	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867	39th	[data unknown/missing]
Albert G. Burr	Democratic	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871	40th 41st	[data unknown/missing]
Edward Y. Rice	Democratic	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873	42nd	[data unknown/missing]
William H. Ray	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	[data unknown/missing]
John C. Bagby	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	[data unknown/missing]
Benjamin F. Marsh	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883	45th 46th 47th	[data unknown/missing]
Nicholas E. Worthington	Democratic	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887	48th 49th	[data unknown/missing]
Philip S. Post	Republican	March 4, 1887 – January 6, 1895	50th 51st 52nd 53rd 54th	Elected in 1886. Died
Vacant		January 6, 1895 – December 2, 1895
George W. Prince	Republican	December 2, 1895 – March 3, 1903	54th 55th 56th 57th	Redistricted to the 15th district.
George E. Foss	Republican	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913	58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd	Redistricted from the 7th district.
Charles M. Thomson	Progressive	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915	63rd	[data unknown/missing]
George E. Foss	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919	64th 65th	[data unknown/missing]
Carl R. Chindblom	Republican	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933	66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	[data unknown/missing]
James Simpson, Jr.	Republican	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	73rd	[data unknown/missing]
Ralph E. Church	Republican	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1941	74th 75th 76th	First elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Retired to run for U.S. Senator.
George A. Paddock	Republican	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943	77th	[data unknown/missing]
Ralph E. Church	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949	78th 79th 80th	Elected again in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Redistricted to the 13th district.
Richard W. Hoffman	Republican	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1957	81st 82nd 83rd 84th	[data unknown/missing]
Harold R. Collier	Republican	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1973	85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd	Redistricted to the 6th district.
Samuel H. Young	Republican	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975	93rd	Lost re-election.
Abner Mikva	Democratic	January 3, 1975 – September 26, 1979	94th 95th 96th	Resigned to become judge of U.S. Court of Appeals
Vacant		September 26, 1979 – January 22, 1980
John Edward Porter	Republican	January 22, 1980 – January 3, 2001	96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th	[data unknown/missing] Retired.
Mark Kirk	Republican	January 3, 2001 – November 29, 2010	107th 108th 109th 110th 111th	First elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Retired to run for run for U.S. Senate, and then resigned when elected.
Vacant		November 29, 2010 – January 3, 2011
Bob Dold	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	112th	Elected in 2010. Lost re-election.
Brad Schneider	Democratic	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015	113th	Elected in 2012. Lost re-election.
Bob Dold	Republican	January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017	114th	Elected in 2014. Lost re-election.
Brad Schneider	Democratic	January 3, 2017 – Present	115th 116th	Elected in 2016.

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

See also

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

References

1. Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
2. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
3. Barone, Michael; McCutcheon, Chuck (2013). The Almanac of American Politics 2014. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 577–578. ISBN 978-0-226-10544-4. Copyright National Journal.
4. Illinois Congressional District 10, Illinois Board of Elections
5. "David J. Kalbfleisch for U.S. House, IL-10 in 2010". Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20090813090041/http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/news/1001476%2Cpp-greenparty-061208-s1.article. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
7. "Allan Stevo for Congress". Archived from the original on October 20, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
8. McKinney, Dave; Sweet, Lynn; Pallasch, Abdon M. (May 28, 2011). "Illinois Democrats target GOP with redrawing of congressional map". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
9. Sadin, Steve (June 2, 2011). "Dold Will Run in Remapped 10th". Libertyville Patch. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
10. "Waukegan Dem announces bid for congressional seat". WALS-TV. April 28, 2011. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
11. Sweet, Lynn (May 25, 2011). "Brad Schneider running in Illinois 10 Democratic primary". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on June 2, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
12. "Long Grove man enters 10th Democratic race". Daily Herald. November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
13. "Third democrat enters 10th congressional race". Buffalo Grove Patch. September 19, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
14. Schneider survives in 10th district Dem primary, Chicago Sun-Times, March 20, 2012.
15. "Illinois' 10th Congressional District election, 2016". Ballotpedia. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
16. https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/illinois-10th-congressional-district/
17. "Daily Herald - Suburban Chicago's Information Source". Daily Herald. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
18. Pearson, Rick. "Republican Dold won't seek 4th rematch for Congress with Democrat Schneider". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
19. Times, The New York (March 20, 2018). "Illinois Primary Election Results". Retrieved January 17, 2019 – via NYTimes.com.

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

• Washington Post page on the 10th District of Illinois
• U.S. Census Bureau - 10th District Fact Sheet