The Illinois Senate is made up of 59 senators elected from individual legislative districts determined by population. Under the Illinois Constitution of 1970, senators are divided into three groups, each group having a two-year term at a different part of the decade between censuses, with the rest of the decade being taken up by two four-year terms.
The 2007 population of Illinois was 12,852,548 [US Census website]. There are 59 districts for the Illinois State Senate [Wikipedia]. Doing the math, it's about:
There are 59 State Senators in the Illinois Senate and two US Senators from Illinois in the US Senate.
There are fifty nine Illinois State Senators.
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Every US state, including Illinois, has two US senators.
If you are talking about federal congressmen Illinois has 2 senators and 19 representatives. If you are talking about the Illinois state legislature then Illinois has 118 representatives and 59 senators.
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there are 100 in the U.S and 2 from each state
There are two senators for each US state.
Each state elects 2 US senators
If you are talking about state senators, the answer is fifty nine. If you are talking about senators from Illinois that represent Illinois in Washington D.C. in the United States congress, the answer is two.
Illinois has 2 U.S. Senators as does every state. The 2 current Illinois senators are Dick Durbin, a Democrat, and Mark Kirk, a Republican. Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005-2008.