---
type: Person
title: "Mike Simmons-Gessesse"
description: "IL Senate District 7 — IL State Senate District 7"
role: "IL Senate District 7"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IL"
district: "IL State Senate District 7"
represents: "us/states/il/districts/senate/7"
tenure:
  start: "2021-02-06"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "cacba238-37d7-4cd1-8583-88f58f0af51b"
  office: "5486b20a-d9d8-494f-8330-37129a8dcbf4"
  tenure: "2d15bd12-cffd-4fe8-9acd-f16f7e92e661"
  jurisdiction: "30b793d6-d3cd-468f-a7e6-09379ec1f49e"
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"
---

# Mike Simmons-Gessesse

Current IL Senate District 7 (IL State Senate District 7).

Represents [IL State Senate District 7](/us/states/il/districts/senate/7.md).

## Sources

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

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