State Rep. Lamont Robinson Jr. (D-Chicago) has served two terms in the Illinois General Assembly and became the first openly LGBTQ African American elected to the state legislature in 2018. He was reelected to a third term in the House in 2022. Robinson has a degree in business marketing from Clark Atlanta University and an MBA from National Louis University.

The legislator has been an insurance agent and owns an Allstate insurance branch, worked as a business professor at Harold Washington College and worked as director of the Kappa Leadership Institute in Chicago. Robinson nabbed the endorsement of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who lives in the 4th Ward and who said “Lamont works hard and has the vision and experience to lead the Fourth Ward forward.”

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