Herman Webster Mudgett,better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes,was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896,Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud,forgery,swindling,three to four bigamous illegal marriages,horse theft and murder. His most notorious crimes took place in Chicago around the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Judith Gail Biggert is an American politician and attorney. She is the former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 13th congressional district,serving from 1999 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party.
William Grant Stratton,was an American politician who served as the 32nd governor of Illinois from 1953 to 1961.
Dawn Clark Netsch was an American professor of law at Northwestern University and an Illinois politician. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States,she served in the Illinois State Senate from 1972 to 1990,and as the Illinois Comptroller from 1991 through 1994. In 1994 she was the first woman to be nominated by a major political party to run for Governor of Illinois. She co-authored the legal textbook,State and Local Government in a Federal System.
Crete Township is located in Will County,Illinois. As of the 2010 census,its population was 23,774 and it contained 10,286 housing units. Washington Township was formed from a portion of Crete.
Toni Lynn Preckwinkle is an American politician and the current County Board president in Cook County,Illinois,United States. She was elected to her first term as president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners,the executive branch of Cook County government,in November 2010,becoming the first woman elected to that position.
Mary L. Smith is an American lawyer and former principal deputy director and acting director of the Indian Health Services from October 2015 to February 2017. Previously she was general counsel for the Illinois Department of Insurance. From 2009 until August 2010,she had been a presidential nominee to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice. However,she was never confirmed by the Senate,and the White House in 2010 decided not to renominate her to the post. In 2023,she was sworn in as president of the American Bar Association.
Bruce Vincent Rauner is an American businessman,philanthropist,and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chairman of the Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR.
Emma Martina Luigia Morano was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017,aged 117 years and 137 days. At the time of her death,she was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. She is the oldest Italian person ever and the third-oldest European person ever behind Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) and Lucile Randon (1904–2023).
Jeanne M. Ives is an American politician. A Republican,she is a former member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 42nd district. She has run for governor of Illinois,and for U.S. representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district.
Lottie (Holman) O'Neill was an American politician from Illinois who was the first woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly. First elected in 1922,O'Neill served 40 years in the Assembly,the longest-serving female elected official in the United States at the time.
Emma Ann Reynolds (1862-1917) was an African-American teacher,who had a desire to address the health needs of her community. Refused entrance to nurses training schools because of racism,she influenced the creation of Provident Hospital in Chicago and was one of its first four nursing graduates. Continuing her education,Reynolds became a medical doctor serving at posts in Texas,Louisiana and Washington,D.C. before permanently settling in Ohio and completing her practice there.
The 2018 elections for the Illinois House of Representatives took place on Tuesday,November 6,2018 to elect representatives from all 118 districts. The winners of this election served in the 101st General Assembly,with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States census. The Democratic Party has held a House majority since 1997. The inauguration of the 101st General Assembly occurred on Wednesday January 9,2019. The Democrats flipped 8 seats while Republicans flipped 1 seat,resulting in a net gain of 7 seats for the Democratic caucus.
Lauren Ashley Underwood is an American politician and registered nurse who is a U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party. Her district,once represented by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert,includes the outer western suburbs of Chicago,including Crystal Lake,Geneva,Oswego,Woodstock,and Yorkville.
Elections were held in Illinois on Tuesday,November 6,1956.
The 2014 Illinois judicial elections consisted of both partisan and retention elections,including those one seat of the Supreme Court of Illinois for ten seats in the Illinois Appellate Court. Primary elections were held on March 18,2014,and general elections were held on November 4,2014. These elections were part of the 2014 Illinois elections.
The 2022 elections for the Illinois House of Representatives occurred on Tuesday,November 8,2022,to elect representatives from all 118 Representative districts in the Illinois House of Representatives. The primary election occurred on Tuesday,June 28,2022. The winners of this election serve in the 103rd General Assembly,with seats apportioned among the state based on the 2020 United States census. The Democratic Party has held a House majority since 1997. 92 Democratic candidates;104 Republican candidates and 1 independent candidate ran for a house seat. The inauguration of the 103rd General Assembly occurred on Wednesday,January 11,2023.
The 2022 elections for the Illinois Senate occurred on November 8,2022 to elect Senators from all of the state's 59 Legislative districts in the Illinois Senate. The primary election took place on Tuesday,June 28,2022. The winners of this election will serve in the 103rd General Assembly with seats apportioned among the state based on the 2020 United States census. Under the Illinois Constitution of 1970,senators are divided into three groups with each group having a two-year term at a different part of the decade between censuses,with the rest of the decade being taken up by two four-year terms. The Democratic Party has held a majority in the Senate since 2003. The inauguration of the 103rd General Assembly occurred on Wednesday,January 11,2023.
Emma Meyer (1859–1921) was a Danish landscape painter.
Oscar Crozier was a sugar planter and state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era from 1874 until 1875.
