Attorney General — Illinois
Illinois Attorney General · educational cover · justice civic · American Future Type
What this office is
The Attorney General of Illinois is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official Illinois sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Illinois. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a Cook County State’s Attorney. This office is the lawyer for Illinois.
Springfield is the capital, in Sangamon County. Chicago is the largest city, in Cook County. Cook is one county. One hundred two counties hire the same Attorney General — the collar counties, downstate, the Metro East that looks at St. Louis, the river towns, and the prairie included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on illinoisattorneygeneral.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Springfield that is not the Loop, a Cook consumer file that is not the whole map, a collar-county file, a Metro East file that is Illinois looking at Missouri, a downstate farm-and-river file, and a public-integrity file that never makes a Chicago broadcast.
Staff who only know the Loop, or only know Springfield as the whole state, are not doing the job. Wisconsin is a different state. Indiana is a different state. Iowa is a different state. Missouri is a different state. Kentucky is a different state. The Metro East looking at St. Louis remains Illinois.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Illinois law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every circuit case, and not a county State’s Attorney’s docket.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Springfield for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Illinois · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on illinoisattorneygeneral.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a Cook County State’s Attorney.
- Not a United States Senator (Class II is 2026).
- Not the Mayor of Chicago.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- Illinois State Board of Elections
- Office of the Attorney General of Illinois
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of Illinois