Mike (Mike) Simmons (D-SS07)
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District: 773.769.1717
District FAX: 217.782.3242
Senator
Section F, Office G Stratton Office Building 401 South Spring Street
Springfield, IL 62706

District Office:
1040 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
Chicago, IL 60660
Elected: 2021    Next Election: 2026
Committee Assignments
ChairmanSenate Committee on Human Rights
Vice ChairSenate Committee on Behavioral and Mental Health
MemberSenate Committee on Education
MemberSenate Committee on Transportation
MemberSubcommittee on Health and Human Services
Counties Representing
Cook

Bio

Lifelong resident of the 7th Illinois Senate District; BA in political science from Amherst College; Founder and CEO of Blue Sky Strategies & Co., a firm that develops anti-racist public policy; Former Deputy Commissioner and Policy Director of the Dept. of Planning and Development for Chicago Mayor's Office; Deputy Director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, an Obama Foundation initiative; Legislative aide for U.S. Senator Dick Durbin in Washington; Son of a Black-American mother and an Ethiopian-American father, both owners of small businesses in the 7th District; the first openly gay senator to serve in the Illinois Senate; Resides in Uptown; Avid reader, cyclist and lover of the great outdoors.







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