Janice D. Schakowsky
Democrat · IL-9 · U.S. House
Bio
Janice Schakowsky is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative from Illinois's 9th congressional district since 1999, and she previously served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1991–1998). She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 27.6 years
- First took office
- 1999 (14 terms)
- Seniority
- 29 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 82
- Skokie, IL · 773-506-7100
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
- $224k – $785k
- Liabilities
- $455k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$791k – $330k
- Since 2020
- −$37k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 21 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
Janice D. Schakowsky'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
Janice D. Schakowsky (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schakowskysits 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 Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schakowsky'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
- Democratic voters look to select nominee to succeed US Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois 9th District race - Chicago Tribune
Democratic voters look to select nominee to succeed US Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois 9th District raceChicago Tribune 2026 primary day election results: 9th Congressional District of IllinoisChicago Tribune Daniel Biss wins Democratic primary for closely-wa…
Slashdot.org · March 18, 2026 
Establishment Democrats fend off far-left influencer in primary to succeed Rep Jan SchakowskyFifteen Democrats were vying in a primary to replace longtime Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky.
Fox News · March 18, 2026
Daniel Biss wins Democratic primary for closely-watched Illinois House seatBiss, the mayor of Evanston, Ill., topped political newcomer Kat Abughazaleh, a first-time candidate who ran as an unapologetic progressive in the race to succeed longtime incumbent Jan Schakowsky.
NPR · March 18, 2026
Dark Money Group Using Influencers to Take Down Gen Z Dem CandidateA dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for one negative social media post about progressive Illinois House of Representatives candidate Kat Abughazaleh. MS Now reported that Democracy Unmuted, a secretive, unofficial organization that registered it…
The New Republic · March 13, 2026
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