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Jonathan L. Jackson

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Rep. IL-1 · U.S. House · 2 terms

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attendance
Vote attendance live
93%
93/100 · beats 10% of the House
Votes missed live
7
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
2
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Jackson sits more conservative than 30% of the House and more liberal than 70%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
100%
Voted with the party on all 15 recent party-line votes.
Their positions, in their own words
Positions & ratings (Vote Smart) ↗Campaign & issues (Ballotpedia) ↗Background (Wikipedia) ↗Official site ↗

We link to what Jacksonsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

jonathanjackson.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-4372
1632 Longworth House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$418K
From PACs
34.1%
$143K
From individuals
64%
$269K
Cash on hand
$47K

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC)Membership$13K
  • HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$10K
  • REYNOLDS AMERICAN INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE; RAI PACCorporate$9K
  • CME GROUP INC. PACCorporate$8K
  • SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS EMPLOYEES PACCorporate$8K
  • REVIVING AMERICAN JOBS AGAIN PAC DBA EQUAL OPPORTUNITY NOWOther / unclassified$7K
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$5K
  • THE FARM CREDIT COUNCIL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEETrade$5K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Corporate48%
  • Labor20%
  • Membership14%
  • Trade13%
  • Other / unclassified6%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Labor unions$37K
  • Health & medicine$15K
  • Agriculture$14K
  • Lawyers & lobbyists$13K
  • Energy & utilities$13K
  • Automotive$7K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 28% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

FEC filings ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Jackson's campaign has spent $303K across 1,325 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • NGP VAN INC$42K
  • THE FROST GROUP LLC$36K
  • ACUITY POLITICS, LLC$35K
  • UBER$33K
  • SB DIGITAL, INC$10K
  • GRIM STRATEGIES LLC$10K
Fundraising & event venues
  • HUGO'S FROG BAR AND FISH HOUSECHICAGO, IL$4K
  • TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GROUP INCWASHINGTON, DC$3K
  • LANSDOWNE RESORT & SPALEESBURG, VA · 4 payments$2K
  • THE VIP ROOMWASHINGTON, DC · 2 payments$2K
  • WORLD'S FINEST CHOCOLATECHICAGO, IL$1K
  • IT'S JUST CUSTOMARYCHICAGO, IL$824
  • DMV STAFFING SERVICESBELTSVILLE, MD · 4 payments$655
  • TRIPLE CROWN RESTAURANTCHICAGO, IL$465

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Itemized spending at the FEC ↗

Background

Represents Illinois's 1th district · age 60 · from Chicago.

Jonathan Luther Jackson is an American activist and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party and son of Rev. Jesse Jackson, he was previously the national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a financial analyst, and a partner in the beer distributorship River North Sales and Service, based in Chicago.

Before Congress
civil rights advocatebusinesspersonacademic
Education
Whitney M. Young Magnet High SchoolNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityKellogg School of Management

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

More & sources
Wikipedia ↗Ballotpedia ↗Bioguide ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗Positions (VoteSmart) ↗

Stock trades

live

Jackson has 17 periodic transaction reports on record — stock trades disclosed after the fact under the STOCK Act. Each PDF itemizes the trades.

See it charted on Capitol Trades ↗

From U.S. House Clerk financial disclosures.

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this House seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers
  • Christian MaxwellRepublicanChallenger
    $32K
    raised ↗
Primary challengers (same party)

+ 4 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Jonathan actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Sat 8
weekend
Sun 9
weekend
Mon 10
August recess
Tue 11
August recess
Wed 12
August recess
Thu 13
August recess
Fri 14
August recess
Sat 15
August recess
Sun 16
August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. House Clerk, last 100 roll calls through 23-Jul-2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.