Join Elgin Community College for the annual Latinx Heritage Month Kickoff Brunch honoring Jane Barbosa, a well-known member of the Latinx community in Elgin, former recruiter and minority affairs coordinator at Elgin Community College and founder of the Organization of Latin American Students
Jane Barbosa remembered as big part of Elgin Jane Barbosa of Elgin died June 25 at age 75. She was an influential and well-known member of the Mexican and Latino community in Elgin. COURTESY OF GIL FELICIANO Jane Barbosa with her brother Manuel Barbosa, a pioneering former federal court judge from Elgin. COURTESY OF GIL FELICIANO
Updated 6/29/2021 7:56 PM
Jane Barbosa, an influential and well-known member of the Mexican and Latino community in Elgin, died June 25 at Advocate Sherman Hospital. She was 75.
Born in Cerritos, San Luis Potosi, Barbosa and her family migrated from Mexico when she was a child. The family initially worked the migrant farming circuit. She and her brother, Manuel, who later became a pioneering federal court judge, picked cotton in Texas and sugar beets in Nebraska before their 10th birthdays. The family settled in Elgin in 1957.