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Columbia is a city in Monroe County, Illinois. The city had 10,999 residents as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.[1]

Federal officials

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Illinois are:

Office title	Officeholder name	Date assumed office	Party affiliation
U.S. Senate Illinois	Tammy Duckworth	January 3, 2017	Democratic Party
U.S. Senate Illinois	Dick Durbin	January 3, 1997	Democratic Party

To view a map of U.S. House districts in Illinois and find your representative, click here.

State officials

The following is a list of the current state executive officials from Illinois:

Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office
Attorney General of Illinois	Kwame Raoul	Democratic	January 15, 2019
Governor of Illinois	J.B. Pritzker	Democratic	January 14, 2019
Illinois Auditor General	Frank J. Mautino	Nonpartisan	January 1, 2016
Illinois Comptroller	Susana Mendoza	Democratic	December 5, 2016
Illinois Director of Natural Resources	Natalie Phelps Finnie	Nonpartisan	March 22, 2024
Illinois Secretary of State	Alexi Giannoulias	Democratic	January 9, 2023
Illinois Superintendent of Education	Tony Sanders	Nonpartisan	February 23, 2023
Illinois Treasurer	Mike Frerichs	Democratic	January 12, 2015
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois	Juliana Stratton	Democratic	January 14, 2019

To view a list of state legislators from Illinois, click here.

Ballot measures

See also: List of Illinois ballot measures and Monroe County, Illinois ballot measures

To view a list of statewide measures in Illinois, click here.

To view a list of local ballot measures in Monroe County, Illinois, click here.

Local recalls

See also: Laws governing recall in Illinois

No specific grounds are required for recall in Illinois. The Illinois Constitution does not specifically address recall of local officials. Because of this, recalls of local officials in the state are determined by locality.[2][3]

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Footnotes

1. ↑ United States Census Bureau, "2020 Census," accessed February 1, 2022
2. ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Constitution of the State of Illinois," accessed June 26, 2013
3. ↑ Daily Herald, "Buffalo Grove puts Stone vote to public," August 10, 2010

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