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Abortion and reproductive rights

Access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.

Illinois snapshot72,143

Induced pregnancy terminations reported in Illinois

2023

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Induced pregnancy terminations reported as occurring in Illinois during 2023.

By patient residence

Illinois residents: 44,836
Out-of-state residents: 26,168
Residence unknown: 1,139

By gestational age

Less than 8 weeks: 38,462
8–11 weeks: 22,113
12–15 weeks: 5,858
16 weeks or more: 4,198
Gestational age unknown: 1,512

How it was measured: Illinois Department of Public Health aggregation of reports submitted by providers and published in the department's public abortion-statistics table.

Keep in mind

This is an occurrence-based count: it includes patients from outside Illinois and does not count Illinois residents whose procedure occurred in another state.
Aggregate reporting does not measure access, affordability, complications, or other health outcomes.

Illinois Department of Public Health ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Protect abortion accessRestrict abortion access

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Housing and property costs

Housing supply, affordability, renters, zoning, and property costs.

Illinois snapshot$1,274/month

Median gross rent

2020–2024 estimate

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Median monthly gross rent for occupied rental units paying cash rent, including contract rent and estimated tenant-paid utilities.

Other statewide housing measures

Median owner-occupied home value: $263,300
Owner costs with a mortgage: $1,987/month
Owner-occupied housing rate: 67.1%

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This is a statewide multi-year estimate; local rents and current asking rents can differ substantially.
The owner measures describe owner-occupied units and are not estimates of the current cost to purchase a home.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

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Expand affordable housingLower property costs

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Healthcare

Coverage, prescription costs, Medicaid, and access to care.

Illinois snapshot8.1%

People under 65 without health insurance

2024 ACS annual estimate

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Share of Illinois’s civilian noninstitutionalized residents under age 65 who lacked comprehensive health-insurance coverage at the time of the ACS survey.

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This excludes people age 65 and older and is a annual survey estimate rather than a current enrollment count.
Insurance status does not measure affordability, provider availability, coverage adequacy, or quality of care.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

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Expand coverage and accessEmphasize choice and competition

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Education

Public schools, school choice, teachers, and higher education.

Illinois snapshot90.5%

Adults with at least a high school diploma

2020–2024 estimate

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Share of Illinois residents age 25 and older whose reported attainment is a regular high school diploma or equivalent (including GED or an alternative credential), some college, or an associate’s or higher degree.

Additional attainment measure

Bachelor's degree or higher: 37.8%

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

This measures adult educational attainment, not the current public-school graduation rate or school performance.
It combines people educated in different jurisdictions and time periods.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Invest in public schoolsExpand school choice

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Gun policy and public safety

Firearm rights, gun-safety rules, and violence prevention.

Illinois snapshot1,563

Firearm deaths

2024 final data

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Deaths in which firearm injury was recorded as the underlying cause, with the rate age-adjusted per 100,000 residents.

Illinois compared with the U.S.

Age-adjusted firearm death rate

Illinois: 12.4 per 100,000
United States: 13.1 per 100,000

Illinois's rate was 0.7 deaths per 100,000 lower than the national rate.

Both rates use 2024 National Vital Statistics System mortality data and are age-adjusted.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ↗

Population-adjusted measure

Age-adjusted firearm death rate: 12.4 per 100,000

How it was measured: CDC National Vital Statistics System death-certificate data published through CDC WONDER and Stats of the States.

Keep in mind

The total combines firearm homicides, suicides, accidents, legal-intervention deaths, and deaths of undetermined intent.
Mortality data do not measure nonfatal firearm injuries, defensive uses, gun ownership, or the effect of any specific policy.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ↗

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Strengthen gun-safety lawsProtect gun rights

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Immigration and border policy

Border enforcement, legal immigration, and pathways to citizenship.

Illinois snapshot14.7%

Residents who are foreign-born

2020–2024 estimate

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Share of Illinois residents who were not U.S. citizens at birth, including naturalized citizens, lawful noncitizens, and people without lawful status.

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

Foreign-born is not a measure of unauthorized immigration or current border crossings.
The survey does not assign legal status and this statewide estimate does not show recent arrivals or local distribution.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

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Prioritize border enforcementCreate legal pathways

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Environment and energy

Clean water, conservation, climate, and energy production.

Illinois snapshot16%

Electricity generated from renewable resources

2024

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Share of electricity generated at Illinois facilities from renewable energy resources during 2024.

Other major shares of in-state generation

Nuclear: 53%
Natural gas: 16%
Wind: 13%

How it was measured: FactVote calculated each share from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2024 state profile: utility-scale generation from Table 5 plus estimated small-scale solar generation from Table 19. The denominator includes both utility-scale and small-scale generation; displayed shares are rounded to whole percentages.

Keep in mind

This measures in-state electricity generation, not total energy consumption or the generation mix of imported electricity.
The percentage does not by itself measure emissions, reliability, affordability, or land use.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

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Illinois snapshot$4.24/gal

Chicago-area regular gasoline price

Week of August 31, 2026

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Estimated average retail price of regular-grade gasoline across all formulations, including taxes, in EIA's Chicago survey area.

Illinois compared with the U.S.

Regular gasoline price

Illinois: $4.243/gal
United States: $4.071/gal

The Chicago-area average was 17.2 cents per gallon higher, or about 4.2% above the U.S. average.

Both figures are EIA weekly retail estimates for regular gasoline, including taxes, for the week of August 31, 2026. The Illinois-side figure covers the EIA Chicago survey area, not all of Illinois.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

Recent weekly prices

Prior week: $4.348/gal
Weekly change: −10.5¢
One year earlier: $3.657/gal
Change from one year earlier: +58.6¢

How it was measured: U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly retail motor-gasoline survey estimate for Chicago. FactVote displays the published dollars-per-gallon value and calculates changes from EIA's published prior-week and year-earlier observations.

Keep in mind

EIA does not publish a current statewide Illinois weekly gasoline-price series; this is the Chicago survey area and should not be read as the Illinois statewide average.
The regional estimate does not represent the price at every station or in every Illinois community.
The series is nominal and not adjusted for inflation or seasonal patterns, and weekly estimates can be revised.

U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗

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Prioritize conservation and clean energyExpand domestic energy production

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Taxes and the economy

Taxes, government spending, jobs, wages, and small business.

Illinois snapshot$83,390

Median household income

2020–2024 estimate

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Median money income received by Illinois households, expressed in inflation-adjusted 2024 dollars.

Additional household measure

People below the poverty threshold: 11.6%

How it was measured: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts estimate derived from the American Community Survey.

Keep in mind

Household income is not take-home pay and does not directly account for taxes, benefits, household size, debt, or regional cost differences.
The poverty measure and income estimate are multi-year survey measures, not current economic forecasts.

U.S. Census Bureau ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Lower taxes and spendingInvest in workers and services

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Voting, democracy, and government accountability

Voting access, election administration, ethics, transparency, and corruption.

Illinois snapshot

70.42%

Registered-voter turnout in the 2024 general election

November 5, 2024 general election

22.81%

Primary election turnout

March 17, 2026 general primary

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Certified ballots cast in Illinois's 2024 general election as a percentage of registered voters.

General and primary turnout comparison

General: Nov. 5, 2024 · Primary: Mar. 17, 2026

General election turnout: 70.42%
Primary election turnout: 22.81%

Both rates use ballots cast as a share of registered voters.

Illinois voters chose a party ballot in the primary, while all registered voters could use the general-election ballot.

Illinois State Board of Elections ↗

General-election participation totals

Registered voters: 8,101,424
Ballots cast: 5,705,246

2026 primary-election participation totals

Registered voters: 8,289,712
Ballots cast: 1,890,699

Illinois State Board of Elections ↗

How it was measured: Illinois State Board of Elections statewide voter-turnout table. The headline uses the board's November 5, 2024 general-election totals; the comparison uses its March 17, 2026 general-primary totals.

Keep in mind

These are registered-voter turnout rates, not voting-eligible-population or voting-age-population rates.
Primary and general ballots differ in available contests, so the comparison describes participation and not election access, security, administrative quality, or public trust.

Illinois State Board of Elections ↗

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Expand voting accessIncrease election safeguardsStrengthen ethics and transparency

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Public safety and criminal justice

Policing, crime prevention, sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation.

Illinois snapshot294.5 per 100,000

Reported violent-crime rate

2024

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Violent offenses reported to law enforcement per 100,000 residents in participating jurisdictions.

How it was measured: FactVote sums the 12 monthly state offense rates returned by the FBI Crime Data Explorer for each calendar year. The accompanying coverage value is the mean of the 12 monthly population-coverage percentages returned with the same query.

Keep in mind

These are crimes reported to law enforcement, not all crimes that occurred.
Illinois's 2021 and 2022 points have partial reporting coverage and should not be treated as fully comparable statewide rates.
Reporting systems, agency participation, and later revisions can change the published series.
Average monthly population coverage in 2024 was 94.3%; this is not complete statewide reporting.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Illinois snapshot1,765.5 per 100,000

Reported property-crime rate

2024

Understand this number

Property offenses reported to law enforcement per 100,000 residents in participating jurisdictions.

Keep in mind

These are crimes reported to law enforcement, not all crimes that occurred.
Illinois's 2021 and 2022 points have partial reporting coverage and should not be treated as fully comparable statewide rates.
Reporting systems, agency participation, and later revisions can change the published series.
Average monthly population coverage in 2024 was 94.3%; this is not complete statewide reporting.

Federal Bureau of Investigation ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Illinois snapshot29,027

Average daily state-prison population

Fiscal year 2025

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Average daily population in Illinois Department of Corrections prisons during fiscal year 2025.

Fiscal-year system flows

Prison admissions: 15,826
Prison exits: 15,507

How it was measured: Illinois Department of Corrections administrative statistics published in its fiscal year 2025 annual report.

Keep in mind

This covers the state prison system and excludes county jails, federal custody, and people supervised in the community.
Admissions exclude people admitted from other custody and people returned from conditional release; exits exclude technical violators, following the report's footnotes.
An average population is not a single-day census and does not by itself measure crime, victimization, sentencing policy, recidivism, or facility capacity.

Illinois Department of Corrections ↗

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Emphasize policing and enforcementEmphasize prevention and justice reform

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Social Security, Medicare, and retirement

Retirement benefits, Medicare, and the long-term financing of these programs.

Illinois snapshot2,454,005

Illinois residents receiving Social Security benefits

December 2025

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People in Illinois whose Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits were in current-payment status in December 2025.

Illinois compared with the U.S.

Residents receiving Social Security benefits

Illinois: 19.3%
United States: 20.1%

Illinois's share was 0.8 percentage points lower than the national share.

Both shares use December 2025 beneficiaries in current-payment status and Census resident-population estimates.

Social Security Administration ↗

Beneficiary type

Retired workers: 1,886,306
Disabled workers: 227,744
Widow(er)s and parents: 137,812
Spouses: 77,275
Children: 124,868

How it was measured: Social Security Administration Master Beneficiary Record data assigned geographically using U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 data. FactVote combines the source's retirement and disability spouse rows into Spouses and its three child rows into Children so the displayed categories reconcile exactly to the headline.

Keep in mind

The total includes retirement, survivor, dependent, and disability beneficiaries and is not limited to retirees.
People whose benefits were withheld are excluded; residence is assigned from administrative mailing information, including representative-payee addresses where applicable.

Social Security Administration ↗

Context only. This number does not affect candidate matches or rankings.

Protect or expand benefitsChange benefits to address long-term costs

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Foreign policy and diplomacy

Diplomacy, alliances, and the use of U.S. military force abroad.

Strengthen diplomacy and alliancesLimit U.S. military intervention abroad

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Veterans and military families

Veterans' care, benefits, housing, work, and transition to civilian life.

Protect or expand veterans' care and benefitsExpand veterans' housing, education, and work support

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National defense

Military readiness, modernization, and defense spending.

Invest in military readiness and modernizationReduce military spending

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Digital privacy and surveillance

Personal data rights and limits on surveillance.

Strengthen personal data rightsLimit government and workplace surveillance

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Artificial intelligence

AI safeguards, accountability, research, and development.

Set AI rules and safeguardsInvest in AI research and development

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Libraries and access to books

Public library services and access to books.

Support and expand library servicesProtect access to library books

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