Illinois's 1st congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative	Jonathan Jackson D–Chicago
Area	621.6 sq mi (1,610 km2)
Population (2024)	735,259
Median household income	$69,490[1]
Ethnicity	49.7%Black 36.1%White 9.2%Hispanic 2.7%Two or more races 2.0%Asian 0.4% other
Cook PVI	D+18[2]

Illinois's first congressional district is acongressional district in the U.S. state ofIllinois. Based inCook County, the district includes much of the South Side ofChicago and continues southwest toJoliet.

From 2003 to early 2013 it extended into the city'ssouthwest suburbs until reaching the border ofWill County, and covered 97.84 square miles (253.4 km²), making it one of the40 smallest districts in the U.S. (although there are four smaller districts in Illinois). The district had a population that was 65% African American, the highest percentage of any congressional district in the nation, but with redistricting that percentage has now declined to 52%. It includes the home of formerPresidentBarack Obama, who ran unsuccessfully for the seat in the2000 primary.

The 1st is amajority-minority district, and has been since at least the 1920s. In 1929, it became the first district in the 20th century to send anAfrican American to Congress whenRepublicanOscar Stanton De Priest was elected to represent the district. The 1st has been represented by an African American Member of Congress ever since, the longest ongoing stretch of black representation for any seat in the House of Representatives. It has been held by aDemocrat since 1935 whenArthur Mitchell, the first African American Democrat elected to Congress, took the seat as part of theNew Deal Coalition. In 1949, district representativeWilliam Dawson became the first African American to chair a congressional committee.

The district is currently represented byJonathan Jackson who was elected to succeed longtime incumbentBobby Rush in 2022.^[3]

• Chicago – 2,665,039
• Joliet – 150,362
• Orland Park – 58,703
• Tinley Park – 55,971
• Oak Forest – 27,478
• New Lenox – 27,214
• Lockport – 26,094
• Homer Glen – 24,543
• Blue Island – 22,558
• Harvey – 20,324
• Frankfort – 20,296
• Evergreen Park – 19,943
• Mokena – 19,887
• Matteson – 19,073
• Alsip – 19,063
• Bourbonnais – 18,164
• Lemont – 17,629
• Country Club Hills – 16,775
• Bradley – 15,419
• Midlothian – 14,325
• Channahon – 13,383
• Minooka – 12,758
• Markham – 11,661
• Crestwood – 10,826
• Riverdale – 10,663

• Manhattan – 9,385
• Manteno – 9,210
• Frankfort Square – 8,968
• Calumet Park – 7,025
• Braidwood – 6,194
• Coal City – 5,705
• Wilmington – 5,664
• Posen – 5,632
• Palos Park – 4,899
• Robbins – 4,629
• Dixmoor – 2,973
• Diamond – 2,640

As of the 2020 redistricting, the district will still be centered primarily around theChicago's South Side, now with a greater portion ofWill County, and a corner of northernKankakee County. The 1st district takes in theChicago neighborhoods ofOakland,Burnham Park,Auburn Gresham,Washington Heights,Greater Grand Crossing,Chatham, andBurnside; most ofAshburn,Roseland, andCalumet Heights; the west portion ofKenwood andWoodlawn; and parts ofSouth Deering,Near South Side,Douglas,Chicago Lawn,South Shore,South Chicago,Hyde Park,Washington Park,Morgan Park, andMt. Greenwood.

Outside of the Chicago city limits, the district takes in theCook County communities ofMidlothian,Posen,Robbins,Calumet Park, andPalos Park; most ofBlue Island; the south portion ofLemont; the eastern portion ofAlsip; the northeastern portion ofEvergreen Park; the western portion ofMarkham; the southeastern portion ofTinley Park; and parts ofOak Forest,Orland Park,Crestwood,Beverly,Riverdale,Dixmoor,Harvey,Country Club Hills, andMatteson.

Will County is split between this district, the2nd district, and the14th district. The 1st and 2nd districts are partitioned by South Harlem Ave, West Peotone Rd, North Peotone Rd, West Kennedy Rd, Rock Creek, and South Center Rd. The 1st and 14th districts are partitioned by West 135th St, High Rd, Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, Thornton St, East 9th St, Madison St, East 12th St, East Division St, South Farrell Rd, Midewin National Tail Grass Prairie, West Schweizer Rd, Channahon Rd, DuPage River, and Canal Road North. The 1st district takes in the communities ofHomer Glen,Braidwood,Wilmington,Manhattan,Frankfort,Channahon,New Lenox,Lockport Heights,Bonnie Brae,Mokena,Arbury Hills,Frankfort Square,Wilton Center,Andres,Symerton,Ritchie,Rest Haven,Custer Park,Lakewood Shores,Lorenzo; easternBraceville; easternGodley; easternMinooka; westernElwood;Lockport east of the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal; most ofBraidwood; part ofDiamond; part ofCoal City; and part ofJoliet.

Kankakee County is split between this district and the2nd district. They are partitioned by North 5000E Rd, East 6000N Rd, Cardinal Drive, Durham St, East Armour Rd, East Marsile St, Bisallion Ave, and the Kankakee River. The 1st district takes in the municipalities ofManteno, northernBourbannais, and part ofBradley.

The departure of thesteel industry, along with other manufacturing jobs from the South Side in recent decades, has created economic difficulties which the area is still trying to overcome. The district's median household income as of 2000, $37,222, trailed the national average by 11.4%. The unemployment rate (7.6%) was more than double the national rate, and nearly 20% of district residents were living in poverty. These problems are more pronounced within the Chicago portion of the district – 14 of the district's 18 suburbs had median household incomes over $40,000 as of 1999, with the six most affluent grouped in the southwest corner of the district. But black middle-class Chicago neighborhoods, such as Avalon Park and Chatham, have remained more stable, along with the more upscale Hyde Park-Kenwood area.Health care andhigher education now constitute major economic sectors in the region.

Hospitals in the district includeOak Forest Hospital in Oak Forest andProvident Hospital of Cook County in Grand Boulevard, both part of theCook County Bureau of Health Services; as well as theUniversity of Chicago Hospitals in Hyde Park,Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park,Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago Lawn,St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island,Jackson Park Hospital in South Shore andSt. Bernard Hospital in Englewood.

Local educational institutions include theUniversity of Chicago in Hyde Park,Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Douglas,Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights andKennedy-King College, aChicago city college, in Englewood, andChicago State University in Roseland is located directly outside the district at its southern edge; in addition, there are five seminaries in Hyde Park:Catholic Theological Union,Chicago Theological Seminary,Lutheran School of Theology,McCormick Theological Seminary andMeadville Lombard Theological School.

Rate Field, home of theChicago White Sox, is less than 1,000 feet (300 m) west of the district's northwestern border. Other area cultural and entertainment attractions include theDuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago'sWashington Park, andFirst Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park; several square miles ofCook County Forest Preserves can be found on three sides of Oak Forest, and Oak Forest's Chicago Gaelic Park[1] is home to Irish Fest, held annually on Memorial Day weekend. Business and industrial presences in the district include Panduit Corporation[2], an electrical manufacturer in Tinley Park; Parco Foods[3], a cookie manufacturer in Blue Island; and Midwest Suburban Publishing, publisher of theSouthtownStar, in Tinley Park.

In addition to Washington Park and those sites associated with the University of Chicago and IIT, district locations on theNational Register of Historic Places include:

This table indicates how the district has voted inU.S. presidential elections; election results reflect voting in the district as it was configured at the time of the election, not as it is configured today. The candidate who received the most votes in the district is listed first; the candidate who won the election nationally is in CAPS, and the candidate who won the state of Illinois is indicated with a †.

Democrats routinely dominate politics in the district, with the main focus of competition being the partyprimary. Only twice since 1966 has a Republican candidate for Congress received over 20% of the vote,^[20] and the Democratic nominee has topped 80% in everypresidential race during that time. The district's expansion into the suburbs in the 1990s has incorporated a population that has voted Republican more often; Republican support has passed the 10% mark, andGeorge W. Bush received 17% of the vote here in2004. His was the best showing by a Republican presidential candidate in the district in over 40 years.

The district has since the early 1970s elected representatives who dissented from the city's Democratic establishment.William L. Dawson, U.S. Representative from 1943 to 1970, maintained the district's loyalty to MayorRichard J. Daley. His successorRalph Metcalfe initially continued that stance but publicly broke with Daley over an incident of police brutality in 1972, establishing a rift that persists. When Metcalfe died less than one month before the election in1978, Democratic party officials named loyalistBennett M. Stewart to take his place on the ballot, and Republicans replaced their candidate withA.A. "Sammy" Rayner, a former Democratic alderman. Despite the campaign support of Jackson for Rayner, Stewart won the election, although Rayner did get over 40% of the vote.^[21][22]

Stewart served only one term and lost the 1980 Democratic primary to reform candidateHarold Washington. He left Congress in 1983 upon being elected mayor, after winning a contentious three-way primary with 37% of the vote. His successor in Congress was union organizerCharles Hayes. Hayes lost the1992 primary toBobby Rush by a 42–39% margin following theHouse banking scandal, in which it was revealed that Hayes had 716 overdrafts on his congressional checking account.^[23] Rush had previously lost the 1988 and 1990 primaries to Hayes.

Rush was a co-founder of the IllinoisBlack Panthers in 1968, establishing a program for free breakfasts for poor children and a clinic forsickle cell anemia screenings.^[24] He served as a Chicago alderman from 1983 until his election to Congress in 1993, and he was an ally of Mayor Washington in theCouncil Wars of the 1980s. While in Congress, Rush consistently voted with the Democratic position over 90% of the time. When he did break from the party, he usually took positions more liberal than other Democrats, rather than taking positions held by Republicans.^[25] Rush ran against incumbentRichard M. Daley in the 1999 election for Mayor of Chicago. Despite the support of fellow congressmenJesse Jackson Jr. andDanny Davis, he was backed by only three out of 50 aldermen and lost the election by a margin of 72–28%. He had a 55–45% advantage among black voters. In the2000 congressional primary Rush emerged with a 61–30% win over challengerBarack Obama resulting in Obama's only electoral defeat.^[26]

In Congress, Rush focused onurban revitalization issues, and he was a staunch supporter ofgun control efforts before his adult son Huey (named for Black Panther leaderHuey Newton) was killed in a 1999mugging. Following his son's murder, Rush remained a strong supporter of gun control.^[24] During his congressional tenure, Rush generally received perfect ratings of 100 from labor groups including theAFL-CIO andAFSCME, and occasionally also fromAmericans for Democratic Action, theACLU and theNational Abortion Rights Action League. His lifetime rating from theAmerican Conservative Union is 3.93 on a 0 to 100 scale.^{[18][27][28][29]}

Representative	Notes
John Reynolds	Associate Justice of theIllinois Supreme Court (1818–1824) Elected the 4thgovernor of Illinois (1830–1834)
William Henry Bissell	Elected the 11th governor of Illinois (1857–1860)
John Wentworth	Elected the 21stmayor of Chicago (1860–1861)
Elihu B. Washburne	Served asDean of the U.S. House of Representatives (1863–1869) Appointed the 25thU.S. Secretary of State (1869) Appointed theU.S. minister to France (1869–1877)
John Blake Rice	Elected the 24th mayor of Chicago (1865–1869)
Norman B. Judd	Appointed theU.S. envoy to Prussia (1867–1871)
Charles B. Farwell	ElectedU.S. Senator from Illinois (1887–1891)
James Robert Mann	Served asU.S. House Minority Leader (1911–1919)
William L. Dawson	Served as afirst lieutenant in theU.S. Army duringWorld War I (1917–1919) First African-American to chair a congressional committee.
Ralph Metcalfe	Olympian (1932,1936) Served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army duringWorld War II (1942–1945)
Harold Washington	Elected the 51st mayor of Chicago (1983–1987) First African-American mayor of Chicago

The district was adjacent to the2nd district to the east and south, the7th district to the north, and the3rd and13th districts to the west, and also bordered the11th district at its southwest corner. The district's northeast border followedLake Michigan's shoreline for almost a mile.

The district was created following the1830 U.S. census and came into existence in 1833, five months before Chicago was organized as a town; the state was previously represented inthe U.S. House of Representatives with representative elected on anat-large basis. The district includedSouthwestern Illinois until 1853.^[30][31] It included the state'snorthern edge until 1863.^[32] Since that time, the district has included all or part of Cook County; since 1883 the population of the district has been primarily residing onChicago's South Side. Historical populations reflected waves of immigration into the area: previous majority populations were ethnic Irish, German, and east European. Beginning in the mid-19th century, the Irish were the first to establish their physical and political control of the area within the city's South Side.

The current 1st district has aminority-majority population: 51.3% of the residents areAfrican-American.^[19] It has been represented in Congress by African Americans since 1929. Tens of thousands of African Americans moved to Chicago from the rural South in theGreat Migration. They were confined by discrimination to the South Side of Chicago and gradually replaced ethnic whites who moved out to suburbs. At one point during the 1980s, more than 90% of the district's residents were black.^[33]

While successive redistrictings have given the district a larger percentage of white voters, it is still one of the most reliably Democratic districts in the country; with aCook Partisan Voting Index of D+28, it is the fourth most Democratic district of the eight that divide Chicago. The district has not sent aRepublican to the U.S. House of Representatives since1935. After thecivil rights movement gained support from national Democratic Party for major legislation to restore constitutional rights, including the franchise in the South, most African Americans shifted to support the Democratic Party. Democratic congressional candidates routinely receive over 80% of the vote here. The Democratic trend runs right through to the national level; since the 1950s, Democratic presidential candidates have usually carry the district with well over 70 percent of the vote, and have done no worse than 64 percent/

In 2011, following the2010 census, the state legislature redistricted. It expanded the district to cover parts ofCook andWill Counties. Afterredistricting, all or parts ofAlsip,Blue Island,Calumet Park,Chicago,Country Club Hills,Crestwood,Dixmoor,Elwood,Evergreen Park,Frankfort,Frankfort Square,Harvey,Manhattan,Markham,Merrionette Park,Midlothian,Mokena,New Lenox,Oak Forest,Oak Lawn,Orland Hills,Orland Park,Palos Heights,Posen,Riverdale,Robbins,Tinley Park, andWorth are included.^[34] The representative for these districts were elected in the 2012 primary and general elections, and the boundaries became effective on January 3, 2013.

In the twentieth century after the Great Migration from the South and concentration of blacks on the South Side due tode facto residential segregation, the district became the nation's first with a black-majority population. Since the 1920s, it has included the central area of Chicago's South Side African-American community. Over 85% of the district's residents were black during the period from the 1950s through the 1980s, but redistricting since that time – which redrew the district lines with the goal of maintaining three Chicago districts with black populations exceeding 60% – has reduced the percentage of black residents in the district to 70% in the 1990s. The current figure is 65%. Outward migration has caused the South Side's population to decrease over the years, and the district was expanded geographically to the southwest to gain residents, particularly as the state's congressional delegation has been reduced in numbers due to population changes and reapportionment. The district, which covered only nine square miles in the 1950s, is now more than ten times that size. Nearly half its current area was added for the 2000s.

The district's population dropped by 27% in the 1950s,^[35] and by 20% in both the 1970s and 1980s, due to outward migration for suburbanization and because of people leaving the area due to loss of jobs.^[33][36] In redistricting after the1990 U.S. census, the district was extended into the suburbs for the first time in 90 years. Chicago is home to 70% of the district's residents (down from 90% in the 1990s),^[37] although roughly 60% of the district's area is outside the city border. The district's white population (almost 30% of its residents) is concentrated in the suburban areas and in a few Chicago neighborhoods such as Hyde Park.^[38] The district's largest white ethnic groups areIrish (7.1%),German (6.2%),Polish (4.5%) andItalian (3.2%),^[39] mirroring the demographics of the neighboring third and thirteenth congressional districts. There are also sizableDutch,Swedish,Czech,Palestinian,Greek andLithuanian populations in the area of Oak Forest, Orland Park and Tinley Park, the district's three largest suburbs. The Kenwood-Hyde Park area for several decades had a significantJewish community. Existing buildings attest to its history, as the former Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv temple (its second location) has been the headquarters ofJesse Jackson'sOperation PUSH/Rainbow Coalition since 1971[4]. The area also includes a notable presence ofBlack Muslims and is the home ofNation of Islam leaderLouis Farrakhan in Kenwood.

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
District created March 4, 1833
Charles Slade (Carlyle)	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – July 26, 1834	23rd	Elected in 1832. Died.	1833–1843 Included the sixteen counties in the state's southwestern section:Alexander,Bond,Clinton,Franklin,Gallatin,Jackson,Johnson,Macoupin,Madison,Monroe,Perry,Pope,Randolph,St. Clair,Union andWashington counties (five additional counties were later created within this area).[30]
Vacant		July 26, 1834 – December 1, 1834	23rd
John Reynolds (Belleville)	Jacksonian	December 1, 1834 – March 3, 1837	23rd 24th	Elected to finish Slade's term Re-elected in 1834. Lost re-election.
Adam W. Snyder (Belleville)	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	25th	Elected in 1836. Retired.
John Reynolds (Belleville)	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843	26th 27th	Elected in 1838. Re-elected in 1840. [data missing]
Robert Smith (Alton)	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847	28th 29th	Elected in 1842. Re-elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. [data missing]	1843–1853 Reduced in size, and now included eleven counties: Alexander, Bond, Clinton, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, Union and Washington counties.[31]
	Independent Democratic	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849	30th
William H. Bissell (Belleville)	Democratic	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853	31st 32nd	Elected in 1848. Re-elected in 1850. [data missing]
Elihu B. Washburne (Galena)	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	Elected in 1852. Re-elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856. Re-elected in 1858. Re-elected in 1860. [data missing]	1853–1863 Shifted north to cover the eight counties along the state's northern edge:Boone,Carroll,Jo Daviess,Lake,McHenry,Ogle,Stephenson andWinnebago counties.[32]Ulysses S. Grant was a district resident in 1860–61 during the period when he was out of the Army, working in his family's store inGalena, and he became acquainted with CongressmanElihu B. Washburne; Washburne became his political mentor and sponsor, and eventually became Grant's firstSecretary of State.
	Republican	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1863	34th 35th 36th 37th
Isaac N. Arnold (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865	38th	Elected in 1862. [data missing]	1863–1873 During this decade, beginning during theCivil War, consisted of all of Cook County.[40] IndustrialistCyrus McCormick lost the1864 House election as the Democratic candidate.[41] Later during this period, the district was devastated by theGreat Chicago Fire in October 1871.
John Wentworth (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867	39th	Elected in 1864. [data missing]
Norman B. Judd (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871	40th 41st	Elected in 1866. Re-elected in 1868. Retired.
Charles B. Farwell (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873	42nd	Elected in 1870. [data missing]
John B. Rice (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1873 – December 17, 1874	43rd	Elected in 1872. Retired and then died.	1873–1883 Restructured and now includedDuPage County, the thirteen townships comprising the southern half of Cook County (Bloom,Bremen,Calumet,Hyde Park, Lake,Lemont,Lyons,Orland,Palos,Rich,Riverside,Thornton,Worth), and the entire South Side and part of the West side of Chicago. The Chicago portion of the district begandowntown and extended south to 39th Street (now Pershing Road) east of theChicago River and south of the river and theIllinois and Michigan Canal, with its western boundary beingWestern Avenue; on the west side, the district included the area between 16th Street on the north and the river and canal on the south, with the city's western boundary then being Crawford Avenue (nowPulaski Road).[42]
Vacant		December 17, 1874 – February 1, 1875
Bernard G. Caulfield (Chicago)	Democratic	February 1, 1875 – March 3, 1877	43rd 44th	Elected to finish Rice's term. Re-elected in 1874. Retired.
William Aldrich (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883	45th 46th 47th	Elected in 1876. Re-elected in 1878. Re-elected in 1880. Lost renomination.
Ransom W. Dunham (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1889	48th 49th 50th	Elected in 1882. Re-elected in 1884. Re-elected in 1886. Retired.	1883–1895 Remained identical to its previous configuration, except that it no longer included DuPage County or the portion of Chicago west ofClark Street between 16th and 39th Streets.[43] Illinois gained two additional representatives following the1890 census, but they were elected on an at-large basis for the 1893–1895 term before redistricting occurred, and the previous decade's districting remained in effect.[44]
Abner Taylor (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1893	51st 52nd	Elected in 1888. Re-elected in 1890. Retired.
J. Frank Aldric (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897	53rd 54th	Elected in 1892. Re-elected in 1894. Retired.
					1895–1903 Included the seven townships in southeastern Cook County (Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Orland, Rich, Thornton, Worth), and the portion of Chicago's South Side bordered on the north by 26th Street, and on the west by Wentworth Avenue from 26th to 39th Streets and byState Street from 39th to 63rd Streets before following 63rd Street west to the city's border with Lyons Township (then at Cicero Avenue).[45]
James Robert Mann (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903	55th 56th 57th	Elected in 1896. Re-elected in 1898. Re-elected in 1900. Redistricted to the2nd district.
Martin Emerich (Chicago)	Democratic	March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1905	58th	Elected in 1902. Retired.	1903–1949 Confined to the city of Chicago for the first time, and included downtown and the area east of Wentworth to 43rd Street, also reaching west to includeArmour Square as well as most ofBridgeport northeast of 33rd and Halsted Streets.[46] Illinois's districts were not redrawn until 1947, taking effect for the 1948 elections.[47] In1928,Oscar De Priest became the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century.
Martin B. Madden (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1905 – April 27, 1928	59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th	Elected in 1902. Re-elected in 1904. Re-elected in 1906. Re-elected in 1908. Re-elected in 1910. Re-elected in 1912. Re-elected in 1914. Re-elected in 1916. Re-elected in 1918. Re-elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Died.
Vacant		April 27, 1928 – March 3, 1929	70th
Oscar S. De Priest (Chicago)	Republican	March 4, 1929 – January 3, 1935	71st 72nd 73rd	Elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932. Lost re-election.
Arthur W. Mitchell (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1943	74th 75th 76th 77th	Elected in 1934. Re-elected in 1936. Re-elected in 1938. Re-elected in 1940. Retired.
William L. Dawson (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1943 – November 9, 1970	78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st	Elected in 1942. Re-elected in 1944. Re-elected in 1946. Re-elected in 1948. Re-elected in 1950. Re-elected in 1952. Re-elected in 1954. Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Re-elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970. Died.
					1949–1963 Included that part of Chicago bounded on the north by the river; on the east by the lake to Pershing Road and by Cottage Grove Avenue from Pershing to 71st Street and South Chicago Avenue; on the south by Marquette Road from State Street to South Chicago Avenue, following that southeast to 71st and Cottage Grove; and on the west by Wallace Street (from the river to 25th Street), Canal Street (25th to 31st Street), Wentworth (31st to 43rd Street), the railroad between State and Wentworth (43rd to 59th Street) and State Street (59th to Marquette).[48] The same boundaries were maintained in the redistricting after 1950.[49]
					1963–1967 Included that part of Chicago between 31st and 99th Streets bounded on the west by Wentworth (31st to Garfield Boulevard), the railroad 1/4-mile east of Halsted (Garfield to 59th), Halsted (59th to 63rd), State Street (63rd to 83rd) and Stewart Avenue (83rd to 99th), and bounded on the east by the lake (31st to 46th), Cottage Grove (46th to 65th) andStony Island Avenue (65th to 99th).[50]
					1967–1973 Additional redistricting for the 1967–1969 term. All of the district's previous territory was retained, but it was extended further north as far asCermak Road, with its western boundary being the railroad between State and Wentworth (Cermak to 28th Street) and then Wentworth (28th to Garfield). In addition, a small area east of Woodlawn Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets was added.[51]
Vacant		November 9, 1970 – January 3, 1971	91st
Ralph Metcalfe (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1971 – October 10, 1978	92nd 93rd 94th 95th	Elected to finish Dawson's term. Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Died.
					1973–1983 Included that part of Chicago between 31st and 103rd Streets bounded on the west by King Drive (31st to 35th), State (35th to Pershing), the railroad 1/4-mile west of State (Pershing to Garfield), King Drive (Garfield to Marquette), Yale Avenue (Marquette to 69th), Harvard Avenue (69th to 70th), Stewart (70th to 71st), Halsted (71st to95th), the railroad 1/2-mile east of Halsted (95th to 99th) and State (99th to 103rd), and on the east by the lake (31st to 71st Street/South Shore Drive), Yates Boulevard (71st to 73rd), Jeffery Boulevard (73rd to 75th) and Stony Island, continuing onto theCalumet Expressway (75th to 103rd, with minor variation at 95th).[52]
Vacant		October 10, 1978 – January 3, 1979	95th
Bennett M. Stewart (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981	96th	Elected in 1978. Lost renomination.
Harold Washington (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1981 – April 30, 1983	97th 98th	Elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Resigned to becomeMayor of Chicago.
					1983–1993 The only remaining district entirely within the city of Chicago, and included that area between Cermak Road and 103rd Street bounded on the west by Federal Street (Cermak to 25th), the railroad 1/4-mile west of State (25th to 35th), the railroad 1/2-mile east of Halsted (35th to 42nd and 43rd to 47th), Stewart (42nd to 43rd), Morgan Street (47th to 48th), Racine Avenue (48th to Garfield), Peoria Street (Garfield to 56th), Green Street (56th to 57th) and Halsted (57th to 103rd), and on the east by the lake (Cermak to 73rd) and Yates (73rd to 103rd).[53]
Vacant		April 30, 1983 – August 23, 1983	98th
Charles A. Hayes (Chicago)	Democratic	August 23, 1983 – January 3, 1993	98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd	Elected to finish Washington's term Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Lost renomination.
Bobby Rush (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2023	103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th 117th	Elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020. Retired.	1993–2003 Expanded into the suburbs for the first time in 90 years, increasing its total area from 32 to 56 square miles (150 km2). It now included: the Chicago communities ofDouglas,Oakland,Kenwood,Hyde Park,Woodlawn,Greater Grand Crossing,Avalon Park,Burnside,Chatham andMount Greenwood; those portions ofAuburn Gresham andWashington Heights east of Halsted, those portions ofRoseland andPullman north of 103rd Street, and those portions ofCalumet Heights andSouth Chicago west of Yates Boulevard; the portion ofSouth Deering northwest of 103rd and Yates;South Shore, excepting the area southeast of 71st and Yates;Washington Park, excepting the area northwest of 57th and King Drive; the part ofGrand Boulevard north of 43rd Street, as well as most of the area east of Vincennes Avenue; the portion ofArmour Square southeast of 35th Street and Princeton Avenue; most ofEnglewood north of 63rd or east of Halsted; the portion ofWest Englewood north of 63rd; most ofNew City southwest of 49th and May Streets; most ofBrighton Park southeast of 40th and Kedzie Avenue; portions ofGage Park east of Kedzie, most ofChicago Lawn east of Kedzie, and the portion ofAshburn east of Kedzie;Beverly, excepting the area southeast of 103rd and Prospect Avenue; and most ofMorgan Park west of Vincennes. In the suburbs, the district included the villages ofEvergreen Park andMerrionette Park, the portion ofAlsip east of Cicero Avenue, the portion ofBlue Island in Worth Township north of theCalumet Sag Channel, and, with minor variations, the portion ofOak Lawn southeast of 101st and Cicero.[54]
					2003–2013
					2013–2023
Jonathan Jackson (Chicago)	Democratic	January 3, 2023 – present	118th 119th	Elected in 2022. Re-elected in 2024.	2023–present

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