Mike Quigley

Democrat · IL-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Michael Bruce Quigley is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district since the April 7, 2009 special election. The district includes most of Chicago's North Side and several of its western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He previously taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently running for mayor of Chicago in the 2027 election.

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Record of service

In office: 17.4 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 74 of 437 by time served
Age: 67

District offices

Chicago, IL · 773-267-5926

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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.

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.58

Healthcare

D+0.75

Immigration & Border

D+0.86

Guns

D+0.99

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.98

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.36

Defense & Veterans

D+0.03

Economy & Labor

D+0.50

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.11

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.92

Education

D+0.77

Government & Democracy

D+0.80

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

Mike Quigley's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

83%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Mike Quigley (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 Quigleysits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Quigley'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.