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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (94th)
16th District

Photograph of Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)

Springfield Office:

M118 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: Approp I (Vice-Chair); Sen. Comm. Whole; Financial Institutions (Chair); Housing & Community Affairs; Revenue; Fin. Inst. Subcomm. Special Issues; Fin. Inst. Predatory Lending; Fin Inst Subcommittee on Amendments; Revnue Subcommittee Special Issues (Sub-Chair).

Biography: Full Time Legislator. Born December 10th in McComb, Mississippi. Studied journalism at Northwestern University; MA from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; MA in Human Services Administration from Spertus College; MA in Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School, June 2003. Former Emmy Award-nominated news editor at CBS-TV in Chicago, Minister of Communications for St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago and 2001 Legislative Fellow with United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Associated Senator(s):	Mary E. Flowers
	Milton Patterson

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