Schiller Park, IL, is a small town located in the northern suburbs of Chicago. With its close proximity to the city, it benefits from many of the same services and amenities, including representation in government at the county and state level. The village's local politics are represented by an elected Village President and six Trustees. The Board of Trustees acts as a legislative body for the community, governing all aspects of municipal affairs such as public safety, zoning regulations, infrastructure improvements, and more. Together with Mayor Scott Bergman, they strive to ensure that Schiller Park remains a safe place to live for its nearly 8,000 residents. Additionally, residents have access to state and federal representation in the form of Illinois State Representatives and US Senators. In this way, Schiller Park citizens can actively participate in their own government on both local and national levels.
The political climate in Schiller Park, 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
Schiller Park, 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.
Schiller Park, 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 Schiller Park, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 653 contributions totaling $115,822 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $177 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 300 contributions totaling $733,777 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,446 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)