Brookins then went to Chicago State University and Cortez Peters Business School.
He served in the Chicago Police Department and went to the Worsham School of Mortuary Sciences.
After her unsuccessful congressional campaign, the district's other Democratic incumbent Monica Faith Stewart ran as an Independent against Brookins in the general election.
In the 1992 Democratic primary, Senator Emil Jones defeated Brookins after Republicans gerrymandered the two into the same district.
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