Back 16.º distrito congresional de Illinois Spanish حوزه انتخابیه شانزدهم ایلینوی Persian Seizième district congressionnel de l'Illinois French Illinois's 16th congressional district SIMPLE
| Illinois's 16th congressional district | |
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Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023 | |
| Representative | |
| Area | 9,030.5 sq mi (23,389 km2) |
| Distribution |
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| Population (2023) | 755,171 |
| Median household income | $80,425[1] |
| Ethnicity |
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| Cook PVI | R+13[2] |
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The 16th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Republican Darin LaHood. Prominent past representatives from the 16th district have included Everett Dirksen, who went on to become the Republican leader in the United States Senate; John B. Anderson, who became the 3rd highest ranking Republican in the House and went on to run as a major independent candidate in the 1980 Presidential election; and Lynn Martin, who later served as United States Secretary of Labor.
For more than six decades, the shape of the 16th district fluctuated far less than that of any other Illinois congressional district. In this time, it generally included the northwest corner of the state, extending just far enough to the east to grab its largest city, Rockford.[3] By the 1990s, it also extended eastward to include part of McHenry County, an outer suburb of Chicago. This geographic stability also contributed to electoral stability. It first became a Rockford-based district for the 1948 election, and from then until 2012 it was represented by just five people, all but one of whom was a Republican. The sole Democrat to have held it in that period, John W. Cox, Jr., only did so for one term.
However, with the new map drawn for 2012, the 16th was significantly redrawn. It was pushed well to the east to include the southwestern exurbs of the Chicago metropolitan area, and stretches from the Wisconsin border to the Indiana border. While it still included most of Rockford's suburbs, half of Rockford itself—essentially the more Democratic western portion of the city—was shifted to the 17th district.
The district was significantly redrawn again after the 2020 census, and is essentially a merger of the more Republican portions of the old 16th and 18th districts.
- ^ "My Congressional District". US Census Bureau.
- ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ Sweeny, Chuck. "Manzullo gears up for primary with new map". Illinois Conservatives (Source: Rockford Register Star). Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.