---
type: Person
title: "Meg Loughran Cappel"
description: "IL Senate District 49 — IL State Senate District 49"
role: "IL Senate District 49"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IL"
district: "IL State Senate District 49"
represents: "us/states/il/districts/senate/49"
tenure:
  start: "2020-12-11"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "c85ff01f-399d-4307-814d-b35b0144eaff"
  office: "3ecb23a9-3305-4e69-82bd-59d8179ea153"
  tenure: "6282d34c-9757-4588-be1c-fa3109bf5e2a"
  jurisdiction: "a211477c-0c0c-4ed3-b6d7-6aa283e95cc9"
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"
---

# Meg Loughran Cappel

Current IL Senate District 49 (IL State Senate District 49).

Represents [IL State Senate District 49](/us/states/il/districts/senate/49.md).

## Sources

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

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