Confidence

Chicago has tossed mayors out of office for blizzards, corruption, and incompetence. Right now, Chicago is experiencing a “Blizzard of Incompetence”. Chicagoans deserve better.

I will bring a trifecta of experience to City Hall

• Legislative: 6 terms as an Illinois State Representative
• City council: 2 terms as Chicago City Clerk
• State financial crisis management: as your Illinois Comptroller since 2016

Throughout my career, I’ve demonstrated the skills and delivered the results Chicago desperately needs.

The stakes are higher than ever. And to restore confidence, we need our next mayor to understand how to navigate Springfield and the City Council successfully and manage finances. I can do it, because I already have.

My superpowers are finding great people, building great teams, and getting things done.

That’s what smart, competent leadership looks like.

We’re going to get Chicago’s official bird — the construction crane — back in the skies across our city. Those cranes in the sky represent growth. They represent jobs. Housing. Opportunity. Momentum. Mojo.

In 2019, we had 65 construction cranes flying high in our skies, second only to Seattle. Today we’re down to 5.

Our city bird will fly again, in flocks, under my administration, and you’ll see progress.

Chicago is a city of builders. Builders of businesses, of families, of futures. We are going to get back to building big things in Chicago.

We have too many grocery, pharmacy, and maternity deserts. Far too many homes have lead pipes contaminating their water supply. Our growth plan will be a big part of how we will address our most urgent needs. Growth means having the resources to make smart investments in people and to revitalize neighborhoods.

We’ll get businesses and construction projects up and running faster.

• White Glove Service: Streamline the permitting process.
• Start and Stay: Help small businesses grow, and stop nickel-and-diming them with fees.
• Boomerang: For businesses that have left Chicago for other states, let’s get them back.

We will hold ourselves accountable to this goal by displaying a public dashboard that compares our permitting times with those of peer cities.

We’re going to support entrepreneurs and business owners, because when businesses grow, jobs grow, wages grow, and working families grow.

We’re going to increase our supply of housing across the city. Build transit-oriented housing. Build workforce housing. Build adaptive reuse housing. Reinvest in our neighborhoods and our downtown.

We’re going to build industries of the future like Quantum.

Most importantly, we’re going to show progress in rebuilding confidence in Chicago’s future… together.