Senator Dave Syverson Contact information

Dave Syverson is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 35th district since 2013. Before that, he represented the 34th district from 1993 to 2013. He was born on June 29, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Rockford in his early childhood. He attended Guilford High School and Rock Valley College as a business major.

Since joining the Senate in 1993, Dave Syverson has been a reformer, pushing to fix Illinois’ broken ways. Every day, Dave puts his values to work as he represents the people of Northern Illinois. He was raised and educated in Rockford where he raised his two children.

In addition to his Senate Role, Dave is a partner with Williams-Manny, Inc.,and serves on the Board of MercyHealth. He lives in Rockford and has two children. Syverson is a member of the Rockford Chamber of Commerce, Rockford Area Economic Development Council, Rockford Machine Tool Association, National Federation of Independent Business, the National Association of Financial Planners, The Board of Advisors for Zion Development Corporation and Reformer’s Unanimous International.

Under a Charity Fund created by the Senator, and funded by giving up portions of his salary, he has been able to raise money to build neighborhood playgrounds for schools around his Senate district.

During his time in the Senate he has sponsored and passed over 100 of pieces of legislation aimed at improving the jobs climate in his state, reducing the size of Government, & local Government Tax Caps. In addition, he worked on many sweeping health care reforms including the legislation he sponsored, along with then State Senator Barack Obama, creating Illinois Kid Care health plan.

Syverson serves on the following Senate committees: Approp- Health and Human (Minority Spokesperson); Behavioral and Mental Health; Health and Human Services (Minority Spokesperson); Insurance (Minority Spokesperson); Licensed Activities; Local Government; Public Health.