For our series Our Representatives, we’re checking in with the Congressmen, Congresswomen and U.S. Senators that represent the WBEZ listening area in Washington, D.C. That’s 26 lawmakers spread across Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

For this latest installment, Morning Shift talks with freshman Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois’s 8th Congressional district in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. An engineer and lawyer by training, he now represents areas like Elgin, Bloomingdale, Itasca, and his hometown of Schaumburg.