About Jabari

I am running for Mayor to create a Chicago that is truly affordable, transparent, and accountable. We need change.

Jabari Taylor is a South Side native, public-health professional, and community organizer running for Mayor of Chicago to make the city more affordable, more accountable, and easier to navigate for every resident.

A graduate of Curie High School, Jabari studied healthcare management and long-term care management at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois Chicago.

At the UIC School of Public Health, Jabari has helped lead RAPID Illinois, a resource that connects young people with education and training pathways in the health professions. He has also brought college and middle-school students together to talk about mental health, managing stress, higher education, and career planning. That work has shown him both the strength of Chicago’s institutions and the frustration families face when valuable programs are fragmented, difficult to find, or hard to access.

Jabari’s commitment to public service is rooted in his family’s Chicago story. His great-grandparents came from Mississippi during the Great Migration, and he grew up in a multigenerational household shaped by hard work, union stability, and neighbors caring for one another. Those experiences taught him that opportunity is not created by effort alone; it also depends on institutions that work and a community that refuses to leave people behind.

Jabari is running for mayor to help working families afford to stay in Chicago, make city government more transparent and responsive, and connect residents in every neighborhood to opportunity.

I have spent my career in public health and community work helping turn complicated systems into practical pathways. Through my work with RAPID Illinois, I have helped connect youth in the city with education and training opportunities in STEM and health professions. That experience taught me something important: Chicago is not short on talent, institutions, or ideas. We are short on coordination, transparency, and accountability.

I am running for Mayor of Chicago because city government should make daily life easier.

My priorities are straightforward: help working families afford to stay; make city services more transparent, responsive, and accountable; and bring schools, unions, businesses, healthcare institutions, and community organizations together so more Chicagoans can reach well-paying careers and build secure lives.

Chicago should work for the people who keep it running. Teachers, nurses, transit and sanitation workers, electricians, service workers, small-business owners, caregivers, artists, seniors, and families in every neighborhood.

I want Chicago to be a city where existing families can stay, new families can come, seniors can live with dignity, youth can see a future for themselves, public institutions are strong, and residents know their government is working for them.

 I am running so the next generation can afford to stay, build, and belong here. The American Dream should be rebuilt and reimagined starting here in Chicago.