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Barbara Flynn Currie - Legislators Project

Barbara Flynn Currie, a liberal Democrat from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, represented that district in the Illinois House from January 1979 to her retirement at the end of the 2018 legislative year. Beginning in 1997 she served as the IL House Majority Leader, during an era when Mike Madigan served as Speaker of the House. These interviews cover Currie's early life and her long and distinguished career in the Illinois House from 1979 through 2019. She served during the administrations of Governors Jim Thompson, Jim Edgar, George Ryan, Rod Blagojevich, Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner. She headed up the Blagojevich impeachment in 2009 and supervised legislative redistricting following both the 2000 and 2010 census.

Interview Links

Feature Excerpt

Visits From ERA Opponents

Abstract

Interview Session 01 (Audio)

Early life thru the 1978 election to IL House of Representatives

Interview Session 02 (Audio)

Early years in the Illinois State House of Representatives

Interview Session 03 (Audio)

ERA fight in Illinois from 1978 to June, 1982

Interview Session 04 (Audio)

IL House during the early 1980s and Thompson administration

Interview Session 05 (Audio)

IL House during the late 1980s and view of the Thompson administration

Interview Session 06 (Audio)

RUTAN, 1990 redistricting and the Gov. Jim Edgar administration

Interview Session 07 (Audio)

Policy positions in 1990s, redistricting & Gov George Ryan administration

Interview Session 08 (Audio)

The Gov. Rod Blagojevich administration and IL Senator Barack Obama

Interview Session 09 (Audio)

Blagojevich impeachment, redistricting and Gov. Pat Quinn administration

Interview Session 10 (Audio)

Gov. Bruce Rauner, retirement and reflections on Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Transcript


Photos

Caption:
Currie’s parents, Frank T. Flynn, Jr. and Elsie Rose Gobel, were married in a Notre Dame University chapel, South Bend, Indiana, December 29, 1934.

Where:
South Bend, Indiana

When:
December 29, 1934

Ownership:
Narrator’s photo




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