Jesús G. "Chuy" García
Democrat · IL-4 · U.S. House
IL-4 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Jesús G. "Chuy" García is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Patty Garcia vs. Lupe Castillo.
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 202 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 70
- Melrose Park, IL · 773-342-0774
- Chicago, IL · 773-475-0833
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
- $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)
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
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.
On the political map
Jesús G. "Chuy" García (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
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.
Recent notable votes
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