---
type: Person
title: "Willie Preston"
description: "IL Senate District 16 — IL State Senate District 16"
role: "IL Senate District 16"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "IL"
district: "IL State Senate District 16"
represents: "us/states/il/districts/senate/16"
tenure:
  start: "2023-01-11"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "6094271a-c473-4fcd-bebd-9408aa895432"
  office: "fd2532ec-4bee-446f-ad0b-f0e1997ba918"
  tenure: "ea448c4b-3482-4354-abc5-e8ad812f0c77"
  jurisdiction: "0dc75929-7133-410d-9c1b-5a2c7db913f3"
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"
---

# Willie Preston

Current IL Senate District 16 (IL State Senate District 16).

Represents [IL State Senate District 16](/us/states/il/districts/senate/16.md).

## Sources

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

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