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Contributing Editors: Grace Garver, Hannah Land, Emily Yu

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Illinois Attorney General

Current State AG
Kwame Raoul (D)
Political Party
Democrat
Assumed Office

2019

Kwame Raoul was elected as the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois in 2018, and reelected in 2022. From 2004 to 2019, AG Raoul served as an Illinois State Senator, where he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. Prior to serving in the Senate, he worked in private practice advising on healthcare and labor and employment matters, and as a labor and employment attorney for the City Colleges of Chicago. Born in Chicago to Haitian immigrants, AG Raoul began his legal career as a prosecutor in...

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Kwame Raoul was elected as the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois in 2018, and reelected in 2022. From 2004 to 2019, AG Raoul served as an Illinois State Senator, where he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. Prior to serving in the Senate, he worked in private practice advising on healthcare and labor and employment matters, and as a labor and employment attorney for the City Colleges of Chicago. Born in Chicago to Haitian immigrants, AG Raoul began his legal career as a prosecutor in the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

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The AG is an elected position in Illinois.

  • Next Election:November 3, 2026
  • Election Process:Elected
  • Term/Limit:4 years / none


Latest Illinois Attorney General News & Insights

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AGs Clash over EPA Rollbacks, Net-Zero Standards

Illinois AG Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 17 Democratic AGs, the city of Chicago, New York City, and the California Air Resources Board, in filing comments opposing the EPA’s proposal to repeal the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule—which restricts emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants—and revert to the more lenient 2012 emission standards.

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Democratic AGs Urge Federal Agencies to Halt Rollback of NEPA Regulations

Eighteen Democratic AGs have submitted formal comment letters to several federal agencies urging them to withdraw recently issued final rules that rescind regulations implementing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review procedures. The rules largely eliminate existing NEPA regulations and adopt discretionary frameworks in their place. In letters submitted to the ​​Department of Agriculture, Department of…

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Bills Severing EPA from Risk Assessment Research Draw Heat from Democratic AGs

A group of 14 Democratic AGs sent a letter to U.S. Senate and House leaders urging them to oppose efforts to prohibit the EPA from using human health risk assessments and to dismantle the EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD), the research arm of the EPA. In the letter, the AGs recommend that Congress oppose Senate…

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