Jesús G. "Chuy" García

Democrat · IL-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Jesús G. "Chuy" García is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 4th district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, as well as in the Illinois Senate and on the Chicago City Council before his election to Congress. He was also a candidate for mayor of Chicago in 2015 and 2023. Throughout his career in Chicago and national politics, he has been described as a progressive.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 202 of 437 by time served
Age: 70

District offices

Melrose Park, IL · 773-342-0774
Chicago, IL · 773-475-0833

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$8k

2020

$83k

Most recent filing (2020)

Assets: $51k – $115k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $51k – $115k
Since 2019: +$75k

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.46

Healthcare

D+0.89

Immigration & Border

D+0.83

Guns

D+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.84

Crime & Policing

D+0.56

Defense & Veterans

D+0.64

Economy & Labor

D+0.45

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.49

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.66

Government & Democracy

D+0.84

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Jesús G. "Chuy" García's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

91%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

88%

Communist Party USA

87%

Libertarian Party

56%

Republican Party

29%

On the political map

Jesús G. "Chuy" García (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Garcíasits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating García's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.