US Midterms 2026
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Jonathan Jackson, a Democrat who has represented Illinois's 1st congressional district since 2023, is seeking re-election in 2026 against Republican Christian Maxwell.
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Jonathan Jackson was born Jonathan Luther Jackson on January 7, 1966, in Chicago, to civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson; Martin Luther King Jr. was his godfather.
He attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, studied business at North Carolina A&T State University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree, and later earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
As a young man he traveled as an aide de camp to his father, including a trip to Syria in 1983, and he met Fidel Castro in 1984.
Jackson began his career in 1988 as an investment analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert and later worked as an analyst at Independence Bank and as a real estate developer for East Lake Management in Chicago.
In 1998 he and his brother Yusef became owners of River North Sales and Service, an Anheuser-Busch distributorship in Chicago. He has taught finance and entrepreneurship at City Colleges of Chicago and is a business professor at Chicago State University.
Beginning in 2007 he served as national spokesman for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, working on wrongful conviction and juvenile justice cases, and from 2008 he organized opposition to Chicago Public Schools closures.
After Bobby Rush announced his retirement, Jackson entered the 2022 race for Illinois's 1st congressional district as a progressive, won a crowded Democratic primary with about 30% of the vote and then won the general election. He took office in 2023.
In 2024 he ran unopposed in the primary and defeated Republican Marcus Lewis with 65.8% of the vote. In the 119th Congress he sits on the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and he belongs to the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus.
Jonathan Jackson is the Democratic nominee for re-election in Illinois's 1st congressional district, which is based on the South Side of Chicago and also takes in exurban and rural areas in Cook, Will and Kankakee counties. His Republican opponent is Christian Maxwell, who won the Republican primary with 64.5% of the vote against Marcus Lewis. The general election takes place on November 3, 2026.
