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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (96th)
16th District

Photograph of Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)

Springfield Office:

M114 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: Committee of the Whole; Financial Institutions (Chair); Insurance (Vice-Chair); Appropriations I; Pensions and Investments; Environment; Subcommittee on Amendments; Subcomm.on Pension Enhancements; Subcommittee on Payday Loans; Subcommittee on Mortgages.

Biography: Full-time state 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 Harvard Divinity School, June 2003. Former Emmy Award-nominated news editor at CBS-TV in Chicago, and 2001 Legislative Fellow with United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Associated Senator(s):	Mary E. Flowers
	André M. Thapedi

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