Maura Hirschauer
Mom | Organizer | Activist
Maura Hirschauer (she/her) is a member of the 104th General Assembly of Illinois and was first elected to the IL legislature in 2020. She represents the far western side of DuPage and Cook Counties and far eastern Kane County, including the communities of Bartlett and West Chicago, and portions of Aurora, Batavia, Elgin, Geneva, Hanover, Naperville, South Elgin, Warrenville, Wayne, and Winfield; which comprise portions of Suburban Cook, DuPage, and Kane Counties.
Maura’s experience as a founding member and legislative lead for Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety in America; as president of Batavia Mothers’ Club Foundation, a local philanthropic foundation focused on children and families in the Fox Valley; as a Girl Scout Leader; and as a former teacher, have led to her appointment to multiple education-related committees, the firearms working group, and as the inaugural Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Committee. She is a passionate commonsense gun safety advocate and frequent sponsor and fierce advocate of bills related to gun safety, education, workforce development, and reproductive rights.
district 49
Illinois’ State Representative District 49 (shown in blue on the map) contains some of the far-west suburbs of Chicago, including Bartlett, West Chicago, South Elgin, Batavia, Aurora, and Naperville and along part of the border of DuPage and Kane counties. It comprises approximately 65,000 voters and 112,000 constituents in over 38,000 households.
Districts are redrawn after the national census results are available, every 10 years. This map went into effect in 2023 at the start of Illinois’ 103rd General Assembly.
If your home is near the boundary of any district, you should check your address specifically to learn your assigned districts. You can search your address and find your elected officials at the Illinois Board of Elections site.
The purple district is our sister-district 50 to the south, represented by Representative Barbara Hernandez. House Districts 49 and 50 together comprise the total of Senate District 25, Senator Karina Villa.