Calumet City, IL is a medium-sized city in the Chicagoland area with a population of 37,042. It is an ethnically and economically diverse community that has long been the home to various labor and civil rights movements, such as the Pullman Strike in 1894, which was led by African American railroad workers. The local government includes a mayor and six aldermen who are elected to serve four-year terms. The mayor and aldermen manage the city's day-to-day operations while working together to provide services such as public safety, transportation infrastructure, public works projects, zoning and land use regulations, and other programs that benefit citizens. In recent years, Calumet City has taken steps to increase citizen involvement in decision-making processes around development projects. This includes expanding public meetings on issues that affect its citizens’ lives and providing ample opportunities for residents to have their voices heard in city hall and at city council meetings.
The political climate in Calumet City, IL is strongly liberal.
Cook County, IL is very liberal. In Cook County, IL 74.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 24.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cook county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.2% to 24.0%.
Cook county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Calumet City, IL is strongly liberal.
Cook County, Illinois is very liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very liberal.
Illinois is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Calumet City, Illinois: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Calumet City, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 718 contributions totaling $50,528 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $70 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 111 contributions totaling $24,180 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $218 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)