Throughout the 102nd General Assembly, my fellow Republican colleagues and I have highlighted our plan to turn Illinois around. We call this plan Reimagine Illinois. We base Reimagine Illinois on…

Red Bud, IL…State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) has been appointed to the Human Trafficking Task Force by House Republican Leader Jim Durkin. The goal of the task force is…

Session Recap On Thursday, the House of Representatives was again called into Session to take up leftover measures from this past spring, including ethics and energy legislation.  Energy Senate Bill…

Special Session Recap On Tuesday, the Illinois House and Senate were called into session to take up measures leftover from this past spring. In addition to taking up new legislative…

Springfield, IL…The Illinois House of Representatives passed newly revised legislative maps Tuesday evening. State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) offered the following statement condemning the process by which these maps…

Springfield, IL…State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) issued the following statement on Governor Pritzker’s new mask and vaccination mandates announced yesterday: “On August 26, 2021, the Governor issued yet another…

Census Confirms Maps Unconstitutional Due to the recently released U.S. Census data, we know the Democrats’ proposed House districts include districts with population counts ranging from 92,390 (District 83) to…

Springfield, IL… With the release of U.S. Census data on August 12th, State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) offered the following statement in regards to the legislative maps signed into…

New Lawsuits over Maps In May of this year, the Democrat majority in the Illinois General Assembly passed a series of maps along partisan lines. I and my Republican colleagues…

Pritzker’s New Mask Mandates This week, Governor Pritzker announced new mandates concerning masking for schools this upcoming year. I am strongly opposed to these new mandates as I feel that…