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Senator Bill Cunningham (D) - Previous General Assembly (99th)
18th District

Photograph of Senator  Bill Cunningham (D)
 

Springfield Office:
M115 Capitol Building
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-5145
(217) 782-2115 FAX
District Office:
10400 South Western Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643
(773) 445-8128
(773) 672-5143 FAX
Additional District Addresses
Years served: 2011 - 2012 (House); 2013 - Present (Senate)

Committee assignments: Criminal Law; Labor; Committee of the Whole; Higher Education (Vice-Chair); Appropriations II; Transportation; Sub. Public Higher Edu. Exec. Comp. (Sub-Chair); Subcommittee on CLEAR Compliance; Agriculture (Chair).

Biography: Served in the House from 2011-13; full-time state legislator and lifelong resident of the southwest Chicago area; born July 21, 1967; graduate of Saint Barnabas Grammar School (1981), Mount Carmel High School (1985) and the University of Illinois Chicago (1990); former advisor to Cook County Sheriff Mike Sheahan and former chief of staff to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart; youth soccer coach; parent representative on the Sutherland Local School Council; lives in Beverly with wife, Juliana, and two daughters, Madeline and Olivia.


Associated Senator(s): Kelly M. Burke
 Frances Ann Hurley