Robin L. Kelly
Democrat · IL-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Robin Lynne Kelly is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Kelly served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. She then served as chief of staff for Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias until 2010. She was the 2010 Democratic nominee for state treasurer, but lost the general election. Before running for Congress, Kelly served as the Cook County chief administrative officer. After winning the Democratic primary, she won the 2013 special election to succeed Jesse Jackson Jr. in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.4 years
- First took office
- 2013 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 120 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 70
- Matteson, IL · 708-679-0078
- Chicago, IL · 773-321-2001
- Danville, IL · 217-516-4556
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
- Assets
- $16k – $65k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $16k – $65k
- Since 2019
- +$76k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
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)
Issue profile
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
Robin L. Kelly's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Robin L. Kelly (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Kelly?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Kellysits 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 Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kelly'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Common Dreams · May 21, 2026
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Faces Backlash From Black Leaders After Helping Black Woman Get ElectedWith backing from Governor J.B. Pritzker, Juliana Stratton, his number 2, handily defeated black candidate Rep. Robin Kelly, the Congressional Black Caucus pick.
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