What former Illinois senator was featured on the cover of an issue Spider-Man published in this century?
Barack Obama
Spidey Meets the President!
"Spidey Meets the President!"
 is a backup feature in "The Amazing Spider-Man" #583, written by Zeb Wells, with art by Todd Nauck and Frank D'Armata.
 The cover of the issue shows Barack Obama giving a thumbs-up to Spider-Man.
 The comic book was published the week before Obama's inauguration in January 2009.
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
 He is the first African American to have served as president.
 He previously served in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Glenn Poshard
Glendal William Poshard (born October 30, 1945 in Herald, Illinois) is a former Illinois State Senator, U.S. Congressman, gubernatorial candidate, and is a former President of the Southern Illinois University system. Untold Tales of Spider-Man
Untold Tales of Spider-Man is an American comic book series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 26 issues (#1-25, and a -1 issue between #s 22 and 23) from September 1995 to October 1997. The Sensational Spider-Man
The Sensational Spider-Man is a comic book series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 35 issues (#0–33, with # -1 published in July 1997 between #17 and #18), from January 1996 until November 1998. Florence Fifer Bohrer
Florence Fifer Bohrer was born January 24, 1877 in Bloomington, Illinois.
 She was the daughter of former Illinois governor Joseph W. Fifer and was the first female senator in the Illinois General Assembly.
 She served for two terms from 1924 to 1932. The Gathering of Five and The Final Chapter
"The Gathering of Five" and "The Final Chapter" are 1998 storylines published by Marvel Comics.
 The stories are interconnected with no issues being published between the last issue of "The Gathering of Five" and the first issue of "The Final Chapter," and the fictional Gathering of Five that was being prepared for during the first storyline actually taking place in the first issue of "The Final Chapter."
 Both storylines are crossovers between all of the Spider-Man titles being published at the time ("The Amazing Spider-Man", "", "The Spectacular Spider-Man", and "The Sensational Spider-Man").
 It also marked the cancellation of both "The Spectacular Spider-Man" and "The Sensational Spider-Man" while "rebranding" "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Peter Parker: Spider-Man" by renumbering the issues to start again with a new "Issue One," as mandated by Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras. Rickey R. Hendon
Rickey R. Hendon (born December 8, 1953) is a former Illinois Senator for the 5th district, serving from 1992 to 2011. Roy Solfisburg
Roy J. Solfisburg, Jr. (1912–1991) was the Chief Justice of Illinois for the 1962-63 term and again from 1967 to 1969.
 Solfisburg was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1960, the first time in the states history a sitting Justice was defeated by a challenger.
 This created a political stir having a historically Republican candidate unseat a "Daley Democrat".
 As the then youngest Justice his brethren selected Solfisburg as Chief Justice for the 1962-63 term and in 1967, his colleagues again later elected him to an additional 3-year term as Chief Justice.
 Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen championed Solfisburg for an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court.
 Both in Illinois and Washington D.C. it was widely reported he was at the top of the U.S. Supreme Court nominee "short list". Sheila Simon
Sheila J. Simon (born March 13, 1961) was the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, from 2011 to 2015.
 In 2014, she was the Democratic nominee for Illinois State Comptroller, losing to Republican incumbent Judy Baar Topinka.
 She was previously a professor of law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law.
 Simon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, who had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (1969-1973), and his first wife, former Illinois State Representative Jeanne Hurley Simon.