Federal candidate · 2021–2022 cycle · past cycle

Bill Foster

Official portrait of Bill Foster
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Illinois’s 11th district
Party
Democrat
Hometown
Naperville, IL
Born
1955
In Congress
House since 2008 · 16 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
FOSTER, G. WILLIAM (BILL)
Next election
General November 8, 2022 (Wikipedia, checked October 23, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Illinois with the current district highlighted

Illinois, District 11

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0) and the House Clerk, retrieved October 23, 2026.

DemocraticU.S. House · Illinois District 11IncumbentWon the general election (56.5%)

FEC candidate ID H8IL14067 · Principal campaign committee: BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Illinois District 11$2,588,027.45General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Illinois District 11$3,282,466.22Won the general election (44.4%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Illinois District 11$3,332,176.89Won the general election (56.5%)
2019–2020U.S. House · Illinois District 11$2,418,560.74Won the general election (63.3%)
Total raised$3,332,176.89
Total spent$6,263,262.16
Cash on hand$805,115.33
Debts owed by the campaign$1,026,069.89
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2021–2022 cycle totals through December 31, 2022, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $2,232,294.68PACs and other committees: $1,323,478.13Party committees: $7,394.60Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $70,171.69
  • Individual contributions$2,232,294.6867%
  • PACs and other committees$1,323,478.1340%
  • Party committees$7,394.600%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$70,171.692%

Raised and spent over time

Report-by-report history is shown for the current cycle.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

328 committees reported giving $1,306,955.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting G. William (bill) Foster$87.51
  • Independent expenditures opposing G. William (bill) Foster$804,367.40
  • Company and union communications to members about G. William (bill) Foster$30,029.32

FEC totals for the 2022 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Illinois U.S. House, District 11, 2022 · 8 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
G. William (bill) Foster (D)$3,332,176.89$805,115.332022-12-31
Catalina Lauf (R)$2,775,559.99$52,239.332022-12-31
Mark Joseph Carroll (R)$47,407.79$0.002022-11-07
Susan Hathaway-Altman (R)$18,435.84$21.962022-12-31
Cassandra Tanner Miller (R)$5,200.00$3,889.682022-12-31
Grace Kelly Green (R)$2,001.00$0.002022-07-14

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportLikely DApril 27, 2022
  • Inside ElectionsSolid DJanuary 28, 2022
  • Sabato's Crystal BallLikely DDecember 2, 2021
  • PoliticoLikely DApril 5, 2022
  • RCPLikely DJune 9, 2022
  • Fox NewsLikely DJuly 11, 2022
  • DDHQLikely DJuly 20, 2022
  • 538Solid DSeptember 29, 2022
  • The EconomistLikely DSeptember 28, 2022

Recent polls

No public polling found for this race.

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois (retrieved October 23, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 23, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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