Libertarian Party of Illinois

Libertarian Party of Illinois mission is: To elect Libertarians to office and move public policy in a libertarian direction.^[1]

Key tenets of the Libertarian Party platform include the following:^[2]

• Adoption of laissez-faire principles to reduce the state's role in economic government. This would include, among other things, markedly reduced taxation, privatization of Social Security and welfare (for individuals, as well as elimination of "corporate welfare"), markedly reduced regulation of business, rollbacks of labor regulations, and reduction of government interference in foreign trade.
• Protection of property rights.
• Minimal government bureaucracy. The Libertarian Party states that the government's responsibilities should be limited to the protection of individual rights from the initiation of force and fraud.
• Civil libertarianism: Support for the protection of civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and sexual freedom.
• Opposition to laws such as affirmative action and some non-discrimination laws in the private sector.
• Support for the unrestricted right to the means of self-defense (such as gun rights, the right to carry mace, pepper spray, or tasers etc.).
• Abolition of laws against "victimless crimes" (such as prostitution, seat belt laws, use of controlled substances, fraternization, etc.).
• Opposition to regulations on how businesses should run themselves (e.g. smoking bans)
• A foreign policy of free trade and non-interventionism.
• Support for a fiscally responsible government including a hard currency (commodity-based money supply as opposed to fiat currency).
• Abolition of all forms of taxpayer-funded assistance (welfare, food stamps, public housing, Health care, etc.)
• A pro-choice belief that abortion is a personal issue, and should not be part of government.^[3]

As of January 17, 2024, the party has established party status in Cook, McLean, and Tazewell counties.^[4][a]

After the 1994 general election, the Libertarian Party achieved established party status for statewide offices in Illinois. This occurred after its candidates for the then-elected University of Illinois Board of Trustees cumulatively received 5.5% of all votes cast.^[7] After the party's success in the 1998 election for Ford County Sheriff and other countywide offices, it achieved established party status. Due to its second place showing over the then-dormant Democratic Party in that election, the Libertarians received the minority party's seat on the Board of Review and one of the five seats on the Sheriff's Merit Commission.^[8] This status was lost by 2002 after the Libertarian Party failed to field any candidates in the 2002 general election.^[9]

As of May 6, 2026, there are 11 current elected Libertarians, partisan and nonpartisan, in the state of Illinois. Due to the technical issues regarding the CiviCRM transition to Zoho CRM, there is no elected official page at this time.

The current list of elected officials in Illinois from the Libertarian Party, as confirmable through the state party's website^[11], as well as the national party's internal wiki website LPedia^[12], as well as a February 21, 2025 article published in Independent Political Report^[13]:

• Brody Anderson, trustee of the River Valley Library District Board of Trustees (Port Byron)
• Patrick Liapes, trustee of the Poplar Creek Library Board (Streamwood)
• Kelly Liebmann, township trustee of Greenwood Township

• Aisha Pickett, city treasurer of the City of Harvey (Harvey)
• Christopher Laurent, council member of the Chicago Police Council's 14th District (Chicago)
• Justin Gerstner, village president of the Village of Hamel (Hamel)
• Brandon Wisenburg, trustee of the Village of Peoria Heights (Peoria Heights)
• Justin Tucker, Libertarian ward committeeperson, Chicago 1st Ward
• Nico Tsatsoulis, Libertarian ward committeeperson, Chicago 5th Ward
• Jim Humay, Libertarian ward committeeperson, Chicago 36th Ward
• Jake Leonard, trustee of the Nokomis Township Public Library District (Nokomis)

The party successfully sued Governor J.B. Pritzker to skip the signature requirements in 2020 if a party had qualified in 2016 or 2018 when the response to COVID-19 made traditional petition signature collection impossible. This April decision caused any future suits on the same subject to expect success.^[30][31] By October of that year, 39 states had made changes to election dates, procedures, and/or administration.^[32]

• List of state Libertarian Parties in the United States