Galesburg Reporter

Illinois Sen. Win Stoller took to Facebook to share information on a recent visit with the advocacy team of the Central Illinois Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

"Great to meet with the advocacy committee of SWE – Central Illinois," he wrote in the Jan. 20 post. "Thank you Tina Chen, Teresa Cushing & Fiona O’Laughlin for taking time out of your day to stop by and share your vision and legislative priorities!"

According to its website, the SWE is a nonprofit group dedicated to helping women to succeed in engineering careers, demonstrating the value of diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their potential as leaders. The organization seeks to increase gender parity in engineering and technology.

Stoller (R-Germantown Hills) ran uncontested to win his latest term to the Illinois Senate, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Representing the 37th District, he serves on the Environment and Conservation and Higher Education committees. 

“While being sworn into office in the same chamber that President Abraham Lincoln once stood, I couldn’t help but think of something our former great president and leader once said," he wrote in a statement after his Jan. 11 swearing in. "To quote him, ‘The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.' Those words ring just as true now as they did when he first said them in 1854. It is my sincere hope and goal that I will be able to live up to President Lincoln’s vision for what makes a good government as I serve the people of my Senate District.”