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Sarah B. Mertens

Sarah B. Mertens

Democratic · Illinois · 2026

Running for Illinois Senate District 35, Illinois

Top priorities

From the campaign site

  • Defending democracy and voting rights
  • Shifting the tax burden off working families
  • Protecting and uplifting all identities
Biography

Mertens holds a bachelor's degree in Teaching German as a Foreign Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked for a health insurance company and teaching English as a second language online, per the campaign site. Mertens lives in Crystal Lake, where she works as a substitute teacher and school playground supervisor and runs a fee-free martial arts club she founded, per the campaign site.

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