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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (102nd)
16th District
Assistant Majority Leader

Photograph of Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)

Springfield Office:

307 Capitol Building

Springfield, IL 62706

(217) 782-1607

District Office:

1155 West 79th Street

Chicago, IL 60620

(773) 224-2830

(773) 224-2855 FAX

Years served: 2003 - Present

Committee assignments: Criminal Law (Chair); Financial Institutions (Vice-Chair); Transportation; App-Government Infrastructure; App-Judiciary (Sub-Vice-Chair); Redistricting- Chicago South (Sub-Vice-Chair).

Biography: Born in McComb, Miss.; grew up in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Studied journalism at Northwestern University and graduated from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Divinity School. JD from Loyola University of Law. Emmy Award-nominated news editor at CBS-TV in Chicago and 2001 Legislative Fellow with U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow 1998-99.

Associated Senator(s):	Mary E. Flowers
	Cyril Nichols

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