---
type: Person
title: "Chris Balkema"
description: "IL Senate District 53 — IL State Senate District 53"
role: "IL Senate District 53"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IL"
district: "IL State Senate District 53"
represents: "us/states/il/districts/senate/53"
tenure:
  start: "2025-01-08"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "038971fb-33f2-44bf-8d78-be95b2da2f4a"
  office: "c732316f-a405-4f4d-bb9f-1f26c6159afa"
  tenure: "0e0fd0a6-49ee-4708-9749-780fb1541503"
  jurisdiction: "78c6fc9a-0dbe-459b-85d8-edd5419c2b8f"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, il]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Chris Balkema

Current IL Senate District 53 (IL State Senate District 53).

Represents [IL State Senate District 53](/us/states/il/districts/senate/53.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).