in Political Science, before earning a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree with Honors from Depaul University, College of Law in 1974.

Born in Chicago in 1949, Lang has been a Skokie resident since the age of five, and is a Niles North High School alumnus.

[3][4] The district at very times included Skokie, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, and portions of neighboring Chicago.

[8] In 2009, Lang passed HB38 which was a long sought-after, 6 year, $32 billion construction program that focused on fixing schools, roads, and bridges in Illinois.

[9] The program was expected to create 439,000 new jobs by 2015, and would be subsidized through newly legalized gaming machines in bars.

Lang has supported increases in minimum wage, opposed efforts to weaken worker compensation laws, and won a 7% property tax assessment cap for Cook County homeowners.

After twenty-five years of unsuccessful attempts at ratification, Lang, House Chief Sponsor of the ERA, was celebrated as Illinois became the 37th state to ratify.