CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Danny Davis announced Thursday that he won't seek reelection next year after 15 terms in office, making him the latest longtime Illinois Democrat to announce their retirement from Congress.

Davis, 83, sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. First elected in 1996, he represents a solidly Democratic district that includes downtown Chicago, large sections of the city's South and West Sides, and inner ring suburbs.

"We're not going to go away," Davis said, flanked by his wife, local pastors and congressmen at a parking lot in East Garfield Park on Chicago's West Side. “But the time has come.”

Davis’s retirement adds to an already unsettled 2026 congressional landscape in Illinois, where there are now four open seats.

His announcement comes months after l

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