Libertarian Party of Illinois

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Libertarian Party of Illinois
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Officers
Chair: Ray Walden IV
Vice-Chair: Ken Mattes
Secretary: Ken Mattes
Treasurer: Jake Leonard
Executive Director: VACANT
Contact
Phone: (217) 864-8337
Address: 1321 N. Milwaukee Ave., PMB #444, Chicago, IL 60622
Website: Website
Social Media
Facebook: Facebook
Twitter: Twitter

The Libertarian Party of Illinois (LP Illinois) is the Illinois affiliate of the Libertarian Party. Ray Walden IV was elected Chairman on June 23, 2026 after serving as acting Chair since April.

Current Party Leadership=

Current Divisional Officers

  • Justin Tucker, Interim Communications Division Director
    • VACANT, Deputy Director
    • Angelina Santucci, Social Media Director
    • Open vacancies for Newsletter Director, Public Relations Director and Broadcasting Director
  • Blake Hanson, Field Operations Division Director
    • Lorraine Denardis-Albert, Deputy Director and Volunteer Director
    • Paul DiMasi, Chapter Development Director
    • Open vacancies for Campus Outreach Director, Membership Director, Activism Director, Precincts Director, and Deputy Chapter Development Director
  • Bob Blair-Smith II, IT Division Director
  • VACANT, Political Director
    • Jon King, Campaigns Director
    • Cody Graves, Legislative Director
    • Open vacancies for all regional Deputy Directors, Candidate Recruitment Director, and Ballot Access Director

State Central Committee

The Libertarian Party of Illinois' State Central Committee comprises of party members representing each of the state's 17 Congressional districts, as outlined in the state's redistricting process in 2022 following the 2020 U.S. Census[1][2]. As of April 24, 2026, nine seats are filled with eight open vacancies:

State Central Committee
District Map Representative District Parameters
1 Map Matt Cunningham South Side of Chicago, with a long extension into the south and southwest suburbs and farther out into exurban territory, plus parts of Cook County, Will County, and Kankakee County.

Hyde Park, Woodlawn, Auburn Gresham, Washington Heights, Morgan Park, Chatham, Bourbonnais, Bradley, Braidwood, Wilmington

2 Map VACANT Far South Side and south suburban Chicago, including parts of Cook County and multiple counties in eastern/southeastern Illinois

Riverdale, Dolton, Harvey, Lansing, Calumet City, Flossmoor, Homewood, Chicago Heights, Crete, Steger, Kankakee, Pontiac, Watseka, Rantoul, Hoopeston, Danville

3 Map Justin Tucker Northwest Side Chicago to western suburbs and out toward Elgin, along with all or parts of suburbs in Cook County, DuPage County, and Kane County

Avondale, Logan Square, Hermosa, Humboldt Park, Portage Park, Dunning, Elmwood Park, River Grove, West Chicago, Bartlett

4 Map Ray Walden IV Southwest Side of Chicago and near-west suburban corridor

Burbank, Archer Heights, McKinley Park, South Lawndale, Berywn, Cicero, Riverside, La Grange, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Melrose Park, Northlake

5 Map VACANT North and Northwest Side of Chicago extending to nearby suburbs within Cook County

Lincoln Park, North Park, Forest Glen, Norwood Park, Norridge, Schiller Park, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, Lake Zurich, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Inverness, Palatine

6 Map Bob Blair-Smith II Southwestern suburbs and western suburban collar-counties, parts of Cook County, DuPage County, and Will County

Elmhurst, Villa Park, Downers Grove, Darien, Countryside, Bridgeview, Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park

7 Map VACANT West Side of Chicago and nearby west suburban communities within Cook County

Fuller Park, Armour Square, The Loop, Austin, Oak Park, Maywood, Bellwood, Hillside, Broadview

8 Map Matt Piron Northwest suburban district centered on Schaumburg-area suburbs and adjoining communities, parts of Cook County, DuPage County, and Kane County

Des Plaines, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Bloomingdale, Roselle, West Dundee, Elgin, Carol Stream

9 Map Adam Balling North Side Chicago and North Shore district, parts of Cook County and Lake County

Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Evanston, Skokie, Morton Grove, Glenview, Prospect Heights, Hawthorn Woods, Cary, Algonquin

10 Map Alexa Maffei Lake County and North Shore district, parts of Lake County and Cook County

Winnetka, Northbrook, Highland Park, Deerfield, Vernon Hills, North Chicago, Libertyville, Waukegan, Gurnee, Grayslake, Fox Lake, Wonder Lake

11 Map VACANT Outer western and southwestern suburban district, parts of DuPage County, Will County, Kane County, Kendall County and isolated sections of collar counties

Bolingbrook, Lemont, Woodridge, Naperville, Aurora, North Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, Burlington, Hampshire, Marengo, Woodstock, McHenry

12 Map VACANT Outer St. Louis Metro-East region and parts of Southern Illinois

Columbia, Waterloo, Freeburg, Mascoutah, Shiloh, Anna, Carbondale, Marion, Harrisburg, Benton, Mt. Vernon, Centralia, Salem, Effingham, Robinson

13 Map VACANT Inner St. Louis Metro-East extending through Central Illinois

Cahokia, Belleville, East St. Louis, Caseyville, Granite City, Glen Carbon, Bethalto, Carlinville, Springfield, Rochester, Chatham, Decatur, Champaign-Urbana

14 Map VACANT Outer western and northwestern exurban/suburban, includes Kane County, McHenry County, DuPage County, DeKalb County

DeKalb, Cortland, Sycamore, Montgomery, Plano, Oswego, Shorewood, Joliet, Mendota, Ottawa, LaSalle, Oglesby, Bureau Junction

15 Map Jake Leonard Outer St. Louis Metro-East to east-central Illinois, cutting around Champaign and heads west into west-central Illinois

Highland, Greenville, Litchfield, Vandalia, Taylorville, Shelbyville, Sullivan, Mattoon-Charleston, Arcola, Tuscola, Mahomet, Clinton, Lincoln, Jacksonville, Jerseyville, Quincy, Beardstown

16 Map VACANT Northwestern Illinois through north-central Illinois

Rockford outskirts, Harvard, Rochelle, Dixon, Geneseo, Princeton, Streator, Morris, suburbs and outskirts of Peoria and Bloomington-Normal areas

17 Map Dan Groeling Rockford, Quad Cities, portions of western and central Illinois

Rockford, Rock island, Moline, Freeport, Sterling, Galesburg, Peoria, Bartonville, Mapleton, Bloomington, Normal

Mission Statement

Libertarian Party of Illinois mission is to elect Libertarians to office and move public policy in a libertarian direction.[3]

Key Tenets of the Libertarian Party Platform

Key tenets of the Libertarian Party platform include the following:[4]

  • Adoption of laissez-faire principles which would reduce the state's role in economic government. This would include, among other things, markedly reduced taxation, privatization of Social Security and Welfare (for individuals, as well as elimination of "corporate welfare"), markedly reduced regulation of business, rollbacks of labor regulations, and reduction of government interference in foreign trade.
  • Protection of property rights.
  • Minimal government bureaucracy. The Libertarian Party states that the government's responsibilities should be limited to the protection of individual rights from the initiation of force and fraud.
  • Civil libertarianism: Support for the protection of civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and sexual freedom.
  • Opposition to civil rights laws that regulate the private sector, such as affirmative action and non-discrimination laws.
  • Support for the unrestricted right to the means of self-defense (such as gun rights, the right to carry mace, pepper spray, or tasers etc).
  • Opposition to the censoring and the engineering of foreign radio pathways.
  • Abolition of laws against "victimless crimes" (such as prostitution, driving without a seatbelt, use of controlled substances, fraternization, etc.).
  • Opposition to regulations on how businesses should run themselves (e.g., smoking bans)
  • A foreign policy of free trade and non-interventionism.
  • Support for a fiscally responsible government including a hard currency (commodity-based money supply as opposed to fiat currency).
  • Abolition of all forms of taxpayer-funded assistance welfare, food stamps, public housing, Health care, etc.)

The Libertarian Party of Illinois does not have a separate platform from the National Party. Illinois has delegated a representative to the Platform Committee several times, including Bennett Morris in 2020 and Ken Mattes in 2022.

Affiliates

Local LP Chapters in Illinois as of 2013
Local LP Chapters in Illinois as of 2013
Local LP Chapters in Illinois as of March 2017
Local LP Chapters in Illinois as of March 2017

The following are chapters from within the Libertarian Party of Illinois

Current

Pending

Former, Inactive or Status Unknown

Elections

See: Libertarian Party of Illinois Historical Election Results

Elected Officials

This is the most up-to-date list of elected Libertarians in partisan and non-partisan elected positions in the state of Illinois as of April 24, 2026:

  • Aisha Pickett, Harvey city treasurer (2019 - Present, second term)
  • Brandon Wisenburg, Peoria Heights village trustee (2019 - Present, second term)
  • Brody Anderson, River Valley Library District trustee (2021 - Present, first term)
  • Christopher Laurent, Chicago Police Council of the 14th District member (2023 - Present, first term)
  • Jake Leonard, Nokomis Township Pubic Library District trustee (2025 - Present, first term)
  • Jim Humay, Chicago 36th Ward committeeperson (2024 - Present, first term)
  • Justin Gerstner, Hamel village president (2023 - Present, first term)
  • Justin Tucker, Chicago 1st Ward committeeperson (2024 - Present, first term)
  • Kelly Liebmann, Greenwood Township trustee (2021 - Present, second term)
  • Nico Tsatsoulis, Chicago 5th Ward committeeperson (2024 - Present, first term)
  • Patrick Liapes, Poplar Creek Library District trustee (2023 - Present, first full term)

Size and Influence

Year Minimum
Unique
Voters 		Minimum
Percent
Of Voters 		Signature
Members
(Dec) 		Signature
Members
Per
Million
Population 		LNC
Total Donors
2004 - 2016
Or
Active Members
1972 - 2003
(Dec) 		LNC Donors
Per
Million
Population 		State Rank
Of Total LNC
Donors
(Of 51)
2018 155,256 3.35% 4,472 351 528 41.44 8
2017 4,565 357 528 41.24 8
2016 209,596 3.70% 4,834 378 733 57.26 8
2015 4,491 349 397 30.87 8
2014 170,534 4.63% 4,444 345 443 34.39 8
2013 4,390 341 501 38.87 8
2012 56,229 1.06% 4,278 332 555 43.11 8
2011 4,092 318 518 40.28 8
2010 121,068 3.19% 4,038 314 605 47.12 7
2009 3,941 308 554 43.29 8
2008 50,224 0.90% 3,798 298 610 47.85 9
2007 3,590 283 548 43.16 7
2006 5,748 0.16% 3,476 275 451 35.67 7
2005 3,248 258 576 45.68 10
2004 69,253 1.29% 820 65.13 8
2003 692 55.11 7
2002 144,066 3.95% 835 66.66 7
2001 963 77.11 9
2000 32,204 0.65% 1,117 89.83 9
1999 1,094 90.20 9
1998 24,704 0.70% 1,116 92.46 7
1997 798 66.44 9
1996 41,218 0.93% 747 62.49 8
1995 491 41.31 8
1994 196,068 6.09% 403 34.14 8
1993 374 31.89 7
1992 113,393 2.20% 473 40.65 6
1991 398 34.50 4
1990 18,529 0.54% 366 31.97 5
1989 329 28.83 4
1988 184,735 3.93% 265 23.27 4
1987
1986 83,586 2.52%
1985
1984 59,777 1.20%
1983
1982 92,501 2.40%
1981
1980 63,282 1.30%
1979
1978 44,303 1.33%
1977
1976 44,472 0.92%
1975
1974
1973
1972 46 0.00%

Former Executive Committee Leadership

Chair

Vice-Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

Executive Director

Former Divisional Officers

Communications

Vice Chair of Media & Communications

Divisional Positions

Field Operations

Vice Chair of Membership & Development

Divisional Positions

  • Damon Dillon, Membership Director (March 2009—July 2009)
  • Val Vetter, Activism (March 2009—July 2009)
  • Jeanette Muench, Membership Director (?-?, reported in role in 1995[5])
  • Karen Green, Membership Director (June 2016 - February 2018)
  • Dana Olsen, Field Operations Division Director (2019)
  • Paul Durr, Field Operations Division Director (November 20, 2019 - November 1, 2020)
  • Les Deffner, Field Operations Division Director (2020-2022)

IT Division

Divisional Positions

Political Division

Vice-Chair of Campaigns & Electoral

Divisional Positions

  • Bill Passmore, Campaigns Director (1996)
  • Jan Stover, Campaigns Director (March 2009)
  • Lupe Diaz, Legislative Director (March 2009 - July 2009)
  • Ron Shultis, Legislative Director (June 2016 - February 2018)
  • Scott Schluter, Political Director (??? - 2019)
  • Kyle Symons, Political Division Director (2019)
  • Jasen Howard, Candidate Recruitment Director (??? - ???)
  • Jake Leonard, Deputy Candidate Recruitment Director (September 1, 2017 - March 19, 2019)
  • Jake Leonard, Candidate Recruitment Director (March 20, 2019 - November 19, 2019)
  • Jake Leonard, Political Director (November 19, 2019 - June 2022, January 2023 - April 18, 2026)
  • Kevin Kauzlaric, Deputy Candidate Recruitment Director (November 1, 2019 - November 19, 2019)
  • Kevin Kauzlaric, Candidate Recruitment Director (November 19, 2019 - ???)

Other Positions

The Archives of the Libertarian Party of Illinois

In December of 2018, the Board of Directors of the LPI voted to make the Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago the official repository for the records produced by the LPI.

Newsletters

Governing Documents

For historical governing documents see:

Former Addresses

  • P.O. Box 104, Carol Stream, IL 60188 (2013-2016)
  • PO Box 3611, Bloomington, IL 61702 (?-2023)

References

  1. ↑ 2022 Congressional District Maps. Illinois State Board of Elections. (2021, November 24). https://www.elections.il.gov/NewDocDisplay.aspx?%2fM0cs48zOKVZyk9eAbpEoxjoGz9b5YaGJotrUXa16msLVVYTI41XyOd3wpFXfouZkofaSVe1KWowbOO4KXFOmm%2bm17%2bj07wL8VkWjyCzdcmYNY%2bkAxfiZBJmhmV%2fI4UN2gIIs8RNAWf4YukvtREMedT%2fkr4AyH6Ycp3%2fIcfZNV0ykITHSpiVj038a5J65%2fyTzTWXuGKYFlCbxcIBxJ2U2LbZKCjS3HgAaO9V0lMGlxw%3d
  2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors. (2026, April 11). Illinois's congressional districts. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:11, May 1, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illinois%27s_congressional_districts&oldid=1348280564
  3. ↑ [1], State Organization Committee meeting. January 18, 2009
  4. ↑ National Platform of the Libertarian Party, Official Website of the Libertarian National Committee. Retrieved on July 25, 2006
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i https://groups.google.com/g/alt.answers/c/9kIGlSrm5VY

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