• Office Sought: Representative, Illinois (14)
• Birth Date: Oct. 7, 1955
• Occupation: Founder, Electronic Theatre Controls, Scientist, Fermilab
• Web site: http://foster08.com/
• E-mail address: info@foster08.com

Education

• Harvard University, PhD
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA

William "Bill" G. Foster was born in Madison, Wis. He currently lives in Geneva, Il.

Foster had a unconventional path to the Capitol. At 19, he started a successful theater lighting business with his brother, who still runs the company that has made them rich.

A Harvard-educated physicist, Foster then spent more than 20 years working at theU.S. Energy Department's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in suburban Chicago that's home to a giant particle collider.

Growing up in a politically active family in Madison, Wis., Foster says his switch to politics was part of a well thought out plan.

After years of following the news and complaining like other people, said he decided it was time to try to change things when his youngest child went to college.

Foster is divorced father of two adult children.