2020 United States Senate election in Illinois

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The 2020 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, various state and local elections, and the Illinois Fair Tax. Incumbent Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who had been Senate Minority Whip since 2015, won election to a fifth and final term in office, defeating Republican nominee Mark Curran. Durbin won with 54.9% of the vote. Key to Durbin's landslide victory was the heavily populated and very Democratic Cook County, home of Chicago, which he won by around 560,000 votes. Durbin also did well in the suburban counties, often called "collar counties", of Chicago, winning all of them except McHenry County. Durbin did well in Champaign County, home of the University of Illinois, and St. Clair County, where his birth...

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