Follow Us on Twitter

Follow Us on Google Buzz

Became Fan - Facebook

Subscribe to RSS

RSS

Illinois General Assembly


Name	Illinois General Assembly
Coa Pic	Illinoiscapitol.jpg
Coa Res	200px
Session Room	Illinois State Capitol pano.jpg
House Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate House of Representatives
Leader1 Type	President of the Senate
Leader1	John Cullerton
Party1	(D)
Election1	January 14, 2009
Leader2 Type	Speaker of the House
Leader2	Michael Madigan
Party2	(D)
Election2	January 8, 1997
Members	177
Political Groups1	Democratic Party Republican Party
Last Election1	November 2, 2010
Meeting Place	Illinois State Capitol, Springfield

Home | Legislature | Illinois General Assembly

The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. Illinois has 59 legislative districts, with two representatives and one senator from each correspondent district. The current General Assembly is Illinois's 97th.

The General Assembly meets in the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.

Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Illinois/General/Assembly?orderby=viewCount&max-results=10) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 410 Gone in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 257

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Illinois/General/Assembly?orderby=viewCount&max-results=10" in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 257

Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in /home/askbio/public_html/index_bio.php on line 260