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Illinois state legislature
The 56th Illinois General Assembly met from 1929 to 1931.
Fred E. Sterling of Rockford was the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and thus ex officio President of the Senate.
[a]
Martin R. Carlson of
Moline was President pro tempore of the Senate.
David Shanahan of Chicago was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Illinois was divided into 51 districts, each of which elected one Senator and three Representatives. Districts were last reapportioned in 1901
[1] and would not be reapportioned again until 1947.
[2]
The counties of each district were as follows:
[3]
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, and 31st: Parts of
Cook
8th:
Lake ,
McHenry , and
Boone
10th:
Ogle and
Winnebago
12th:
Stephenson ,
Jo Daviess , and
Carroll
14th:
Kane and
Kendall
16th:
Marshall ,
Putnam ,
Livingston , and
Woodford
18th:
Peoria
20th:
Grundy ,
Kankakee , and
Iroquois
22nd:
Vermillion and
Edgar
24th:
Champaign ,
Piatt , and
Moultrie
26th:
Ford and
McLean
28th:
DeWitt ,
Logan , and
Macon
30th:
Tazewell ,
Mason ,
Menard ,
Cass ,
Schuyler , and
Brown
32nd:
Hancock ,
McDonough , and
Warren
33rd:
Henderson ,
Mercer , and
Rock Island
34th:
Douglas ,
Coles , and
Clark
35th:
Whiteside ,
Lee , and
DeKalb
36th:
Adams ,
Pike ,
Calhoun , and
Scott
37th:
Henry ,
Stark , and
Bureau
38th:
Greene ,
Jersey ,
Macoupin , and
Montgomery
39th:
LaSalle
40th:
Christian ,
Shelby ,
Cumberland , and
Fayette
41st:
DuPage and
Will
42nd:
Clinton ,
Marion ,
Clay , and
Effingham
43rd:
Knox and
Fulton
44th:
Jackson ,
Perry ,
Washington ,
Randolph , and
Monroe
45th:
Morgan and
Sangamon
46th:
Jefferson ,
Wayne ,
Richland , and
Jasper
47th:
Madison and
Bond
48th:
Hardin ,
Gallatin ,
White ,
Edwards ,
Wabash ,
Lawrence , and
Crawford
49th:
St. Clair
50th:
Hamilton ,
Saline ,
Pope ,
Johnson , and
Massac
51st:
Franklin ,
Williamson ,
Union ,
Pulaski , and
Alexander
^ Almanac p. 823
^ Devine, Michael J.
"State Politics" . Encyclopedia of Chicago .
^ Almanac pp. 821–822
James Langland, M.A. (1920). The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1921 . Chicago, IL: The Chicago Daily News Company.