Daniel Biss (IL-09)

Daniel Biss is a dad, husband, mathematician, and longtime community leader. Biss has served as Evanston's mayor since 2021, and previously served in both the Illinois House and Senate. As a legislator in the Illinois House and Senate, he built coalitions to pass protections for LGBTQ+ youth, enact major abortion rights legislation, provide retirement savings options to hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans who otherwise wouldn’t have access, and strengthen technology privacy requirements to protect civil liberties. As mayor, he has enacted campaign finance reform and passed a first-in-the-state Healthy Buildings Ordinance to curb carbon emissions. He has also worked with police and community leaders to create the Crisis Alternative Response Evanston (C.A.R.E.) program, a non-police response to low-risk service calls. He is the grandson of Holocaust survivors who moved to Israel in 1948, settling in Herzliya to rebuild their lives after their parents and many other relatives perished, and much of his extended family lives in Israel today. He believes in working to broker an agreement for a two-state solution with two states for two peoples, existing side by side, in peace and security. He is running for Congress to protect our communities, lower costs, and build a government that works for everyone.