The district included Carol Stream, Lisle, Warrenville, Wheaton, Winfield, West Chicago, and Naperville.
She ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary in the 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election, losing to incumbent Governor Bruce Rauner.
Ives gained notoriety for producing a television ad that was broadly characterized by the press and members of her own party as "racist, sexist and homophobic".She is a candidate in the 2020 election for U.S.