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Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D) - Previous General Assembly (98th)
16th District

Photograph of Senator Jacqueline Y. Collins (D)

Springfield Office:

Senator 16th District

M114 Capitol Building

Springfield, IL 62706

(217) 782-1607

(217) 782-2115 FAX

District Office:

1155 West 79th Street

Chicago, IL 60620

(773) 224-2830

(773) 224-2855 FAX

Years served: 2003 - Present

Committee assignments: Energy; Financial Institutions (Chair); Insurance (Vice-Chair); Transportation; Committee of the Whole.

Biography: Born in McComb, Miss.; grew up in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago. Earned degrees from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Spertus College and Harvard Divinity School. Emmy Award-nominated news editor at CBS-TV in Chicago and 2001 Legislative Fellow with U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Recipient in 2011 of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Financial Literacy Leadership from the Illinois state treasurer.

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

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