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7th District

District Office: 5533 North Broadway Chicago, IL 60640 ( 773 ) 769 - 1717 Map/Driving Directions
Springfield Office: 623 Capitol Building Springfield, IL 62706 Map/Driving Directions
Years Served
Appointed February 2008 - Present
Committee Assignment
Appropriations I (Chair); Appropriations II (Vice-Chair); Committee of the Whole; Environment and Conservation; Executive; Government Reform; Human Services; Oversight Medicaid Mang. Care, Spec (Chair); Subcommittee on Special Issues (HS) (Sub-Chair); Sub. on Consequences of Fed.Policy.
Biography
Born May 8, 1963, in Lake Forest; B.A. in urban studies from Princeton; M.A. in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; former budget director, Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations and former strategic planner, Chicago Public Schools; married (husband, Leo Smith) with three children.
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