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Gilbert Villegas
Gilbert Villegas is a member of the Chicago City Council in Illinois, representing Ward 36. He assumed office in 2015. His current term ends on May 17, 2027.
Villegas ran for re-election to the Chicago City Council to represent Ward 36 in Illinois. He won in the general runoff election on April 4, 2023.
Biography
Gilbert Villegas was born in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1988 to 1992. Villegas earned a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Villegas drove a bread truck and was a union shop steward.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2023)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 36
Incumbent Gilbert Villegas defeated Leonor Torres Whitt in the general runoff election for Chicago City Council Ward 36 on April 4, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gilbert Villegas (Nonpartisan) | 57.3 | 5,934 |
| Leonor Torres Whitt (Nonpartisan) | 42.7 | 4,421 | ||
| Total votes: 10,355 | |||
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General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 36
Incumbent Gilbert Villegas and Leonor Torres Whitt advanced to a runoff. They defeated David Herrera and Jacqueline Baez in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 36 on February 28, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gilbert Villegas (Nonpartisan) | 46.5 | 4,240 |
| ✔ | Leonor Torres Whitt (Nonpartisan) | 30.1 | 2,741 | |
 | David Herrera (Nonpartisan) | 16.1 | 1,466 | |
| Jacqueline Baez (Nonpartisan) | 7.4 | 673 | ||
| Total votes: 9,120 | |||
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2022
See also: Illinois' 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 3
Delia Ramirez defeated Justin Burau in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 3 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Delia Ramirez (D) | 68.5 | 121,764 |
 | Justin Burau (R) | 31.5 | 55,995 | |
| Total votes: 177,759 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 3
Delia Ramirez defeated Gilbert Villegas, Iymen Chehade, and Juan Aguirre in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 3 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Delia Ramirez | 66.4 | 37,296 |
| Gilbert Villegas | 23.1 | 12,990 | |
 | Iymen Chehade | 6.6 | 3,719 | |
 | Juan Aguirre | 3.9 | 2,175 | |
| Total votes: 56,180 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 3
Justin Burau advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 3 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Justin Burau | 100.0 | 18,997 |
| Total votes: 18,997 | |||
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2019
See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2019)
General election
General election for Chicago City Council Ward 36
Incumbent Gilbert Villegas won election in the general election for Chicago City Council Ward 36 on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gilbert Villegas (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 5,376 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 1 | ||
| Total votes: 5,377 | |||
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2015
The city of Chicago, Illinois, held elections for city council on February 24, 2015. A runoff will take place in Ward 36 on April 7, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was November 24, 2014.[2] In the general election for Ward 36, Omar Aquino and Gilbert Villegas moved on to the runoff, advancing past Christopher M. Vittorio and Alonso Zaragoza. Villegas defeated Aquino in the runoff election.[3] Joaquin Vazguez was removed from the ballot. Ward 36 incumbent Nicholas Sposato did not run for re-election.[4][5]
| Chicago City Council, Ward 36, Runoff Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Gilbert Villegas |
55.7% | 4,594 | |
| Omar Aquino | 44.3% | 3,656 | |
| Total Votes | 8,250 | ||
| Source: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "Official runoff election results," accessed July 9, 2015 | |||
| Chicago City Council, Ward 36, General Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Omar Aquino |
35.6% | 2,124 | |
| Gilbert Villegas |
32.6% | 1,945 | |
| Christopher M. Vittorio | 24.1% | 1,437 | |
| Alonso Zaragoza | 7.7% | 458 | |
| Total Votes | 5,964 | ||
| Source: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "Official general election results," accessed July 9, 2015 | |||
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Gilbert Villegas completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Villegas' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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At only 17, Gil joined the U. S. Marines and proudly served overseas becoming a Desert Storm Veteran. Following his military service, Gil worked as a bread truck driver and a union shop steward for nine years.
Understanding the challenges and lack of opportunities veterans and workers faced, he went on to develop a program that empowers veteran and minority-owned contractors to bid for public construction projects, helping create and support thousands of good -paying jobs, increasing workforce diversity and training for small businesses.
Alderman Villegas is Chair of the Chicago Latino Caucus and founder of a leadership and scholarship program dedicated to help young people further their education and develop leadership skills. He has lived on the northwest side for 25 years and currently resides in the Dunning neighborhood with his fiancé, two sons and dog.- Led efforts to pass largest universal basic income pilot in America to put money directly in the pockets of low-income working families
- Helped create and support thousands of good-paying jobs for veterans, women, and minority workers
- I will fight to protect a woman’s right to choose and prevent Republicans’ attacks on women’s health care and their efforts to enact extreme anti-choice legislation.
Families have a right to feel safe and secure in their own neighborhood, but crime is completely out of control. Enough is enough.
The shameful murder of George Floyd in 2020 brought about a much-needed reckoning over policing in this country – and the ongoing injustice and tragedy of police abuse and violence perpetrated, in particular, on our Black and brown communities. The public outrage that followed has led to some real progress – here in Illinois and across the country – with new legislation banning chokeholds, requiring officer intervention in instances of excessive use of force, and improving tracking and reporting for such incidents, to name a few. But far more criminal justice reform work remains ahead.
At the same time, in 2021, both Cook County and Chicago suffered from a wave of homicides not seen in a quarter-century, as crime rates in communities big and small climbed to historic highs. That is simply unacceptable, and we must do more immediately to make our communities and our cities safer. We cannot allow politicians on either side of the aisle to paint violent crime as a partisan issue; it is an issue we all should care about addressing.
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2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Chicago 2019 Candidate Survey
Gilbert Villegas did not complete Ballotpedia's Chicago candidates survey for 2019.
See also
2023 Elections
External links
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Officeholder Chicago City Council Ward 36 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 9, 2022
- ↑ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "2015 Election Calendar," accessed August 21, 2014
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Unofficial runoff election results," accessed April 7, 2015
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Unofficial Election Results," accessed February 24, 2015
- ↑ Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, "General Election Candidate List," accessed December 3, 2014
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