The Wayne Saxton Award and George Madden Award and $1000 scholarship is awarded to each of the two delegate citizens to attend Boys Nation. The two delegates are selected by the Administrative Staff of Illinois Boys State.

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2005 Senators - Yashua Bhatti - Rantoul and Josh Boykin - Rockford

2004 Senators - Brody Walworth - Mattoon and Timothy Newlin, Jr. - Peoria

2003 Senators - Gil Harmon - Bartonville and Aaron Mowery - Libertyville

2002 Senators - Vincent Razionale - Brookfield and Eric England - West Union

2001 Senators - Peter Kurinsky - Park Ridge and Kevin Maliszewski - Glen Carbon

2000 Senators - Omar Yunus - Washington and Christopher Connelly - Glen Ellyn

1999 Senators - William Heerman - Park Ridge and John Feeney - Monticello

1998 Senators - Matthew Zuber - Paris and Langston Hughes - Waukegan

1997 Senators - Robert W. Whipple - Lake Forest and Ankit Mahadevia - Naperville

1996 Senators - Sean Stephenson - LaGrange and Musab Balbale - Wheaton