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Julie Hamos; State representative, 18th District n Chair, Committee on Mass Transit.(Focus: 25 Women To Watch)
Crain's Chicago Business, May, 2007 by McKeough, Kevin
Byline: Kevin McKeough When Julie Hamos was 7 years old, she watched Soviet tanks roll down Budapest's main street from her bedroom window. Soon after, she and her family fled Hungary in the middle of the night. Since then, even the biggest challenges have felt small in comparison-including the prospect of fixing Chicago's public transportation system.
As chair of the Committee on Mass Transit, the Evanston Democrat leads the Illinois House of Representatives in responding to the $226-million budget crisis facing the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), which oversees the finances of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra commuter rail line and Pace suburban bus system. It's her job to find a way to plug the $110-million hole in the 2007 budget...
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