Peter Janko
Peter Janko (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Illinois House of Representatives to represent District 69. He is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on March 17, 2026.[source]
Biography
Peter Janko was born in Morse, Germany. He attended Wilbur Wright College and Northeastern Illinois University. Janko’s career experience includes working in telecommunications and historic preservation and restoration.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on March 17, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Peter Janko (D) is running in the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on March 17, 2026.
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Republican primary
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Incumbent Joe Sosnowski (R) is running in the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on March 17, 2026.
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2024
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Incumbent Joe Sosnowski defeated Peter Janko in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Sosnowski (R) | 61.4 | 33,658 |
| Peter Janko (D) | 38.6 | 21,132 | |
| Total votes: 54,790 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Peter Janko advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Peter Janko | 100.0 | 4,020 |
| Total votes: 4,020 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Incumbent Joe Sosnowski advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Sosnowski | 100.0 | 6,914 |
| Total votes: 6,914 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Janko in this election.
2022
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Incumbent Joe Sosnowski defeated Peter Janko in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Sosnowski (R) | 61.4 | 24,663 |
| Peter Janko (D) | 38.6 | 15,501 | |
| Total votes: 40,164 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Peter Janko advanced from the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Peter Janko | 100.0 | 3,776 |
| Total votes: 3,776 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69
Incumbent Joe Sosnowski advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 69 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Sosnowski | 100.0 | 10,199 |
| Total votes: 10,199 | |||
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2020
See also: Illinois House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Illinois House of Representatives District 63
Incumbent Steven Reick defeated Brian Sager in the general election for Illinois House of Representatives District 63 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steven Reick (R) | 54.8 | 28,320 |
 | Brian Sager (D) | 45.2 | 23,390 | |
| Total votes: 51,710 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 63
Brian Sager defeated Peter Janko in the Democratic primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 63 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brian Sager | 66.0 | 5,984 |
| Peter Janko | 34.0 | 3,076 | |
| Total votes: 9,060 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 63
Incumbent Steven Reick advanced from the Republican primary for Illinois House of Representatives District 63 on March 17, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steven Reick | 100.0 | 7,836 |
| Total votes: 7,836 | |||
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Campaign themes
2026
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2024
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Peter’s first career was as a marketing research analyst with a leading Chicago accounting firm. A few years later, he went back to school for a degree in electronics and became a telecommunications products designer with Motorola. Later, he became the lead engineer on a $22M telecommunications infrastructure project for the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. In 2002, Peter started a business in architectural historic restoration.
Peter has served on the on the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission and the Board of Directors of the Preservation Trades Network, a national non-profit organization which provides education, networking and outreach for the traditional building trades.
Peter is currently the elected Democratic State Central Committeeman (essentially the Board of Directors of the Democratic Party of Illinois) representing the 14th Congressional District.
- Hard work deserves appreciation, livable wages, good benefits, opportunity, and lots of respect. The greatest show of respect for hard work is paying people wages that reflect the true value of their skills and labor. Illinois sorely needs solutions that reward hard work – quality jobs and education, affordable healthcare and childcare, property tax reform and a tax code that’s fair to all of the hard working people so that they can take care of their families, help send their kids to college, and contribute to their communities.
- Government, at all levels, has a very big spending problem. Not from expenditures that we truly need to make in order to keep our society functioning effectively but from tax breaks to big corporations, sweetheart deals to the politically connected, projects that make no sense, and other wasteful spending. We also need to give small businesses and family farms a fair chance to thrive by leveling the playing field.
- We have far too many career politicians in the legislature. We clearly need far more people from the various professions in the state legislature - people with firsthand experience with the goods and services, that the state spends our tax dollars on - in order to provide oversight and counter lobbyist influences.
I am not going to claim that fixing our many problems is going to be easy. However, when you have been involved in working on community needs for as long as I have, you build strong relationships with fellow community leaders and the government officials that care.
I believe that “Life’s essentials” should never have been taxed in the first place.
Illinois is one of only 13 states that impose sales tax on groceries. Illinois is also the one and only state that taxes prescription drugs at the state level.
I will fight for the permanent elimination of state and ALL local sales taxes on:
1) Basic foods such as bread, milk, cheese, baby food and formula, fresh meats, poultry, common seafood, fruits, nuts, vegetables and similar foods.
2) All prescription drugs and non-prescription pain relievers such as aspirin, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen, cough suppressants, antihistamines, antacids, laxatives, and diarrhea remedies.
Illinois Federation of Teachers
Planned Parenthood Illinois Action
2020 Labor Organization Endorsements and Support:
AFSCME Council 31
IBEW Local 117
Iron Workers Local 498
Smart 265
Sprinkler Fitters Local 281
UAW Region 4
2020 Other Notable Endorsements:
JB Pritzker (unsolicited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-f4wF2XND4
Citizen Action Illinois
Equality Illinois
Gun Violence Prevention PAC
IL Now (National Order of Women) PAC
IVI-IPO (Independent Voters of Illinois)
Our Revolution (National and State Organizations)
Personal PAC
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2022
Peter Janko did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Peter Janko completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Janko's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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From a young age, Peter has been passionate about making the world a better place. Throughout his life, Peter has engaged in community service and activism. As a teenager growing up in Chicago, Peter was involved in the civil rights movement and the ecology movement (predecessor to today's environmentalism).
Peter's first career was markets analysis at a major Chicago accounting firm. After several years, he returned to school to study electronics for a new career in engineering, first product design, then telecommunications. Peter formed a business in architectural historic preservation & restoration in 2002.
Peter currently sits on the Board of the Preservation Trades Network (PTN), a national non-profit organization which provides education, networking and outreach for the traditional building trades. He previously served on the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission.
- As a community activists for decades, I have contributed countless hours for causes that improve the lives of average citizens from the civil rights movement in the 70's to climate change, income inequality, healthcare, and immigration rights today.
- For Peter, just being a legislator is just not good enough to win the battle for working families. It takes a coalition within government to bring about any real policy change. To that end, he has given significant time and support to the campaigns of over a dozen candidates since 2018 alone, ranging from Presidential and Congressional candidates to County Clerk and County Board candidates. He has used his time on the Democratic State Central Committee to build bridges with many of the state leaders .
- Illinois 63 and most of McHenry County is a public transportation desert. Public transportation has not kept up with population growth. It is inadequate at best in the areas of McHenry County that has it and practically non-existent in the Southwestern part of McHenry County. Yet there seems to be no shortage of funds for questionable road projects. We have an aging population that would like to remain in their homes for as long as they can. Senior Citizens and the disabled need a way to get to the doctor, go shopping, and just lead normal lives without being dependent on the need to drive a car.
• Lowering property taxes through school funding reform. Illinois is by far the worst state in the nation for school funding, relying about 73% on local property taxes. In stark contrast, local property taxes only account for approximately 5% of school funding in Vermont and Hawaii.
• Peter will introduce legislation establishing that a consumer's personal data is the property of the consumer. It would make it unlawful to sell a consumer's data for profit without the consumer's explicit consent. It would prohibit and nullify any default or automatic "right to sell your personal data" clauses in user agreements.
Cities and counties do fine with a single legislative body.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 6, 2020’’
