Rockford: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) — Illinois votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (open — Durbin retiring); U.S. Representative IL-17 and IL-16; Governor/Lieutenant Governor (joint ticket) and the other statewide offices; Illinois House HD-68 (City Hall) and the other Rockford House seats; possibly SD-34 (not verified); Winnebago County offices (Clerk, Treasurer, Sheriff, etc.). No City of Rockford offices — the next municipal (consolidated) election is April 6, 2027, when Mayor Neal's appointed term ends ('until May of 2027')..

Holding office22

the sitting council

On the ballot13

3 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Rockford is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Illinois's 17th congressional district (City Hall, 425 E State St); IL-16 also covers part of the city — Eric Sorensen (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Janessa Neal Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Rockford

Alderman

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Aprel Prunty ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 6	City of Rockford
Chad Tuneberg ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Republican	Ward 3	City of Rockford
Dawn Granath ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 9	City of Rockford
Frank Beach ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Republican	Ward 10	City of Rockford
Gabrielle Torina ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 5	City of Rockford
Gina Meeks ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 12	City of Rockford
Jaime Salgado ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 11	City of Rockford
Jonathan Logemann ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 2	City of Rockford
Karen Hoffman ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 8	City of Rockford
Kevin Frost ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Republican	Ward 4	City of Rockford
Mark Bonne ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 14	City of Rockford
Tamir Bell ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Democratic	Ward 13	City of Rockford
Timothy J. Durkee ✉️ Elected	Alderman	Republican	Ward 1	City of Rockford

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
JB Pritzker Elected	Governor → Running	Democratic	Office of the Governor of Illinois (carried from us-schaumburg)
Collin Corbett	Governor Running	Independent	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners
Darren Bailey	Governor Running	Republican	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

Lieutenant Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Juliana Stratton Elected	Lieutenant Governor	Democratic	Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (carried from us-chicago)
Aaron B. Del Mar	Lieutenant Governor Running	Republican	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners
Carolyn Schofield	Lieutenant Governor Running	Independent	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners
Christian Mitchell	Lieutenant Governor Running	Democratic	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

State Representative — HD-68

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dave Vella Elected	State Representative	Democratic		Illinois General Assembly

State Senator — SD-34

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Steve Stadelman Elected	State Senator	Democratic		Illinois General Assembly

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Richard J. Durbin Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Tammy Duckworth Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Don Tracy	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners
Juliana Stratton	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners
Whitfield Harrington Jr	U.S. Senator Running	American Center Party	Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

U.S. Representative — IL-16

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Darin LaHood Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Paul Nolley	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

U.S. Representative — IL-17

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Eric Sorensen Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Dillan S. Vancil	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

BLOCKED: wincoil.gov (Winnebago County Clerk, the election authority for Rockford) robots.txt has 'User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: /' and 'User-agent: anthropic-ai / Disallow: /' — its '2026 GENERAL ELECTION List of Candidates' (9/25/2026) and sample ballot were NOT read. elections.il.gov (Illinois State Board of Elections) robots.txt is 'Disallow: /' for all agents. So the HD-68 and SD-34 candidate lists are unknown; Stadelman and Vella are recorded as elected only.
Candidates used: the Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners' certified 2026 General Election specimen ballot (peoriaelections.gov; robots allows DocumentCenter for ClaudeBot; Crawl-delay 10 honoured) — it carries the statewide contests and both IL-16 and IL-17, which cover Rockford. U.S. Senate: Stratton DEM, Tracy REP, Harrington Jr ACP. Governor & Lt. Governor: Pritzker/Mitchell DEM, Bailey/Del Mar REP, Corbett/Schofield IND. IL-16: Paul Nolley DEM, Darin LaHood REP. IL-17: Eric Sorensen DEM, Dillan S. Vancil REP. Write-in lines skipped. Statewide names agree with the DuPage listing used in us-schaumburg. A Rock Island County list (rockislandcountyil.gov) was also read but holds county offices only; nothing taken. Raw PDFs deleted; candidate addresses on such lists never copied.
Districts: City Hall geocodes (Census Geocoder, Current) to IL-17, SD-34, HD-68. A 5x4 point grid (~3-4 km) found 8 points inside 'Rockford city': IL-17 (6) and IL-16 (2); all SD-34; HD-67 (6) and HD-68 (2). So Rockford is split between IL-16 and IL-17 (both recorded) and at least two House districts; only City Hall's legislators are recorded.
Municipal: rockfordil.gov (CivicPlus). robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot / Claude-SearchBot that disallows only admin/search/calendar/CivicAlerts/RSS/FAQ-type paths — the /158, /576, /455 and alderman pages used are allowed; the default group's Crawl-delay 10 was honoured although the ClaudeBot group states none; CivicAlerts.aspx news items (disallowed) were NOT opened — only their teaser text on the allowed council page was read. 14 wards; 13 aldermen recorded from their own pages with ward, affiliation and official rockfordil.gov email (ward phones not copied). Janessa Neal (Ward 7) now Mayor by council selection (see her note).
Federal: Senators and Reps from CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (2026-10-31). State: Stadelman (SD-34) and Vella (HD-68) from ilga.gov member lists (Crawl-delay 10 honoured). Governor/Lt Governor sitting rows as in us-schaumburg / us-chicago.
Next municipal election: Illinois consolidated election April 6, 2027 (date per us-schaumburg/us-chicago notes, not re-read). standsFor null for everyone. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.