Jen Gong-Gershowitz

Seat	House District 17
Party	Democratic
Capitol office	Room 271-S · Stratton Office Building
Mailing address	Room 271-S, Stratton Office Building, Springfield, IL 62706
Capitol phone	217-782-4194
Legislative assistant	Jacob Schimmel
Write to	info@gonggershowitz.com (office address in the official directory)
Hometown	Glenview
Tenure	Serving since January 2019
Term limited	No term limits

Committees 6

House Immigration and Human Rights Committee Vice chair standing
House Judiciary: Civil Committee Chair standing
House Appropriations: Higher Education Committee standing
House Cybersecurity, Data Analytics and IT Committee standing
House Financial Institutions and Licensing Committee standing
House Higher Education Committee standing

Bills, 104th General Assembly 35 as principal author · 115 as coauthor

All 35 bills as principal author ›

Coauthor of HB 1312, HB 1697, HB 1710, HB 228, HB 2386, HB 2387, HB 24, HB 2456, HB 2516, HB 2568, HB 2589, HB 2967 and 103 more.

Bills and sponsors: Open States bulk data (public domain dedication), 2026-11-public.pgdump; status is read from the official actions. About the momentum score

Effectiveness 104th General Assembly, 2025 to 2026

1.7315th of 118 in the House
88th percentile

Bills & joint resolutions authored	25
… passed committee / chamber / both	14 / 14 / 12
… became law	12
Carried in the other chamber (became law)	6 (3)
Points vs. House majority average	138 ÷ 79.85 = 1.73
Most-authored topics	Courts & civil law (13), Health & mental health (5), Business, jobs & the economy (4)

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Closest allies co-authorship, 2025 to 2026

Most bills written together

Nicolle Grasse DHouse 53 55
Marti Deuter DHouse 45 51
Mary Beth Canty DHouse 54 49
Tracy Katz Muhl DHouse 57 46
Dee Avelar DHouse 85 45
Joyce Mason DHouse 61 43
Kelly Cassidy DHouse 14 42
Dan Didech DHouse 59 41
Camille Lilly DHouse 78 40
Janet Yang Rohr DHouse 41 40

“Written together” = 104th General Assembly bills and joint resolutions on which both are principal author or coauthor (measures with more than 60 sponsors are left out). Sharing bills does not imply a personal or political alliance.

District 17

Counties: Cook
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Senate members sharing a county: Javier Cervantes (1), Omar Aquino (2), Mattie Hunter (3), Kimberly Lightford (4), Lakesia Collins (5), Sara Feigenholtz (6), Mike Simmons-Gessesse (7), Ram Villivalam (8), Laura Fine (9), Rob Martwick (10), Mike Porfirio (11), Celina Villanueva (12), Robert Peters (13), Emil Jones (14), Napoleon Harris (15), Willie Preston (16), Elgie Sims (17), Bill Cunningham (18), Mike Hastings (19), Graciela Guzmán (20), Cristina Castro (22), Seth Lewis (24), Karina Villa (25), Darby Hills (26), Mark Walker (27), Laura Murphy (28), Julie Morrison (29), Adriane Johnson (30), Don Harmon (39), Patrick Joyce (40), John Curran (41)

District 17 outlined; neighbours link to their members. Full map › · Census 2024 boundaries, simplified.

Official district map: see the official House page.

Lobbyist reports naming this member 2025 to 2026

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Source

Copied from https://www.ilga.gov/House/Members/Details/3352 on November 2, 2026, through Open States people data (CC0), checked against official legislature rosters. Not endorsed by the Illinois House of Representatives.