Peter Breen is a former Republican member of the

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who represented the 48th district from 2015 until 2019. The 48th district included municipalities in DuPage County including all or parts of Lombard, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, and Lisle. Breen earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to election to the Illinois Legislature he was employed as the Vice President and Senior Counsel of the

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. He served as a trustee on the Lombard Village Board and served as Lombard's Acting Village President. Breen defeated six-term incumbent State Representative Sandra M. Pihos in the Republican primary in March 2014 with 56% of the vote. He won the general election against a write-in candidate with about 91% of the vote according to preliminary election results. In 2018, Breen lost reelection to

Terra Costa Howard Terra Costa Howard is the Illinois State Representative for the 48th district. She was first elected to the position in 2018. The 48th district includes all or parts of Glen Ellyn, Lisle, Lombard, Wheaton, and Villa Park. Electoral career Pri ...

in a year that saw numerous suburban Republicans lose at the polls. In 2020, Breen lost again to Costa Howard. Breen is Executive Vice President and Head of Litigation at the Thomas More Society. Breen represents a Texas man who in 2023 sued his ex-wife's friends that helped with her abortion. Breen says that through this lawsuit, it might also be possible to also sue the manufacturers and distributors of abortion medication. Legal scholar Melissa Murray viewed the suit also as an attempt to get the Texas courts to recognize fetal personhood.

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Representative Peter Breen (R) 48th District
at the Illinois General Assembly
Peter Breen for State Representative
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