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 State Representative Elaine Nekritz is serving her fourth term
in the Illinois House of Representatives.
The 57th District encompasses portions of several of Chicago's
north and northwest suburbs: Des Plaines,
Glenview, Mount Prospect, Niles, Northbrook
and Prospect
Heights.
Government Accountability, the
environment, and transportation are the main components of Representative
Nekritz’ legislative agenda. She was successful in abolishing the Cook County
Tuberculosis Sanitarium District and is currently working to revamp the
scandal ridden Cook County Regional Office of Education. Her
legislation to set a 10 minute limit on the amount of time certain diesel
powered trucks and buses can idle was signed into law and is expected to
reduce harmful diesel emissions. Finally, as Chair of the House
Railroad Industry Committee, Nekritz is a leader is promoting high speed
passenger rail in Illinois.
Representative Nekritz is also addressing local issues that impact the 57th
district.  In 2004, she sponsored legislation to create give cook county stormwater management authority to the Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District (MWRD). In 2005,
Nekritz, with the assistance of other local officials, secured a state grant
for the completion of Levee 50, a major flood reduction project in Des
Plaines. She continues to work with
MWRD and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources flooding issues along
the Des Plaines River and across the district.
Prior to
her election as representative of the 57th District in November 2002, Nekritz
was a member of the law firm of Altheimer and Gray, working as a real estate
attorney and later becoming a partner with the firm. She also worked as legislative aide to Jeff
Schoenberg, now the State Senator of the 9th District, while he served as the
state representative of the 58th District.
Representative Nekritz is a past public affairs chairperson for the National
Council of Jewish Women, member of the Glenview League of Women Voters,
member of the Sierra Club, and a Board Member of the Chicagoland Bicycle
Federation. Her work in Springfield has earned
the Legislative Service Award from the American Lung Association, the
Outstanding Legislative Leadership Award from the Illinois Association of
Park Districts and the Northwest Suburban Sierra Club’s Legislator of the
Year Award. Nekritz resides in Northbrook with her husband, Barry.
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