Ilișești () is șeșa commune located in Suceava County, Bukovina, northeastern Romania. It is composed of two villages, namely Brașca and Ilișești. The commune was called Ciprian Porumbescu (with Ilișești village its center) and included Bălăceana and Ciprian Porumbescu villages until 2004, when these were split off to form separate communes.
Late modern period history
During the 1780s, 12 ethnic German families settled in Ilișești () in the course of the Josephine colonization. These ethnic Germans were part of the then emerging Bukovina German () community which was formed in Suceava County and the entire historical region of Bukovina () during the modern period, more specifically during the Habsburg period and, later on, the Austro-Hungarian period.
Administration and local politics
Commune council
The commune's current local council has the following political composition, according to the results of the 2020 Romanian local elections: