Earn, Learn, and Graduate Ready

Chicago Public Schools should prepare every student for college, a skilled trade, public service, or a well-paying career—without forcing young people to wait until after graduation to begin building their future.

We will redesign the educational pathway so qualified students can earn high-school credit earlier, complete college and trade coursework at no cost, and enter paid apprenticeships during their senior year.

Our plan will:

• Allow prepared middle-school students to earn selected high-school credits.
• Expand free summer, evening, and accelerated learning opportunities.
• Guarantee access to dual-credit college and career courses in every region of the city.
• Allow students to earn industry credentials and apprenticeship credit before graduation.
• Create flexible senior-year schedules that combine classroom learning with paid employment.
• Require participating employers to pay students fairly and contribute to the cost of training and supervision.
• Connect city contracts, tax incentives, and development subsidies to paid CPS apprenticeship opportunities.
• Prevent employers from replacing permanent workers with lower-paid students.
• Guarantee that career education expands student choices rather than tracking students away from college.

Students will keep their wages. Employers and industries benefiting from the CPS workforce pipeline will help fund the teachers, counselors, equipment, transportation, and training needed to operate it.

The goal is not to give students less education. It is to make education more useful, flexible, and connected to economic opportunity.

Every CPS graduate should leave school with a diploma, real work experience, and either college credit, a recognized credential, or a direct path into a paid apprenticeship.

Chicago Public Health Plan

Affordable Healthcare:

We don’t have to wait to pass Federal Universal Healthcare. Chicago can create a publicly owned health insurance plan that competes with private insurers, lowers costs, and expands access to care for Chicagoans and Illinois. The plan would use healthcare dollars that workers, employers, and government programs already spend, then redirect those dollars toward better coverage instead of shareholder profits.

My Plan

• Create a public insurance option for residents, workers, unions, small businesses, and public employees.
• Negotiate directly with hospitals, doctors, and pharmacies to lower premiums, medical bills, and prescription drug costs.
• Build a transparent public pharmacy program that eliminates hidden middleman fees and purchases medicines in bulk.
• Partner with Illinois and other states to share technology, pool risk, and create greater bargaining power.
• Expand step by step toward universal coverage so every Chicagoan has an affordable path to healthcare.

How It Would Be Funded

The plan would combine money already being spent through:

• Employer and employee insurance contributions
• Medicaid and Medicare payments
• Federal insurance subsidies
• State and city funding
• Payments from participating businesses and organizations

Most of the budget would replace money currently paid to private insurance companies—not come from entirely new taxes.

Why It Matters

A publicly owned plan would:

• Eliminate shareholder profit
• Reduce administrative waste
• Lower prescription drug costs
• Protect patients from surprise bills
• Invest more in preventive and mental healthcare
• Keep healthcare dollars in our communities

The Goal

Start with a strong public option. Grow it across Chicago and Illinois. Build partnerships with other states. Create a healthcare system that is affordable, accountable, and designed to serve people not profit.

Healthcare is public infrastructure. Every Chicagoan deserves access to it.

Join the Campaign

Support a Chicago public health plan that lowers costs, expands coverage, and puts patients first.

Chicago and Illinois should welcome technological development but not when multinational corporations receive tax breaks while working families absorb higher electric bills, polluted air, water depletion, and an increasingly strained power grid.

Our goal is to build a publicly accountable energy system where major data centers pay the full cost of the power, water, and infrastructure they consume. Public resources should serve residents first, create union jobs, accelerate clean-energy development, and build community wealth not subsidize some of the richest corporations in the world.

• Make data centers pay their own way. Require developers to fund the new generation, transmission, substations, water systems, and grid upgrades their facilities require. Residential customers and small businesses should never be forced to subsidize corporate energy demand.
• End blank-check corporate subsidies. Replace automatic tax exemptions with transparent, project-by-project approval. Any public incentive must produce measurable public benefits, including permanent union employment, local hiring, community investment, and enforceable environmental standards.
• Build public renewable power. Establish municipal and state public-energy authorities capable of developing renewable generation, storage, microgrids, and transmission infrastructure. Data-center payments should help finance this publicly owned system and lower household energy costs.
• Protect workers and frontline communities. Require project labor agreements, prevailing wages, apprenticeship opportunities, targeted hiring, emissions controls, public water-use reporting, and binding community-benefits agreements negotiated with affected neighborhoods.
• Put people first during energy shortages. Hospitals, public transportation, homes, schools, and essential public services must receive priority over corporate computing demand. Large data centers should participate in mandatory demand-response programs and reduce operations when the grid is under stress.

Technology should strengthen our communities—not extract from them. Chicago can become a center of responsible digital infrastructure while ensuring that the wealth and energy produced here remain under democratic control and benefit the people who live and work here.

Tax increment financing uses property-tax growth produced by our communities. That money should be governed as public money with full transparency, meaningful public participation, and clear priorities that improve life for working families.

TIF reform is not about choosing between neighborhood development and public services. It is about democratizing both. Chicago can invest in communities without privatizing the benefits, displacing longtime residents, or allowing decisions involving billions of public dollars to be made behind closed doors.

The principle is simple: when communities create the value, communities should have the power to decide how that value is used.

Chicago should reform TIF so residents can see where every dollar goes, help determine how neighborhood funds are spent, and prevent public resources from being stockpiled or handed to private developers without proof that a project truly needs assistance. Development should serve the public, not the other way around.

My TIF reform plan will:

• Open the books: Create a searchable, public TIF dashboard showing current balances, projected revenue, proposed commitments, contracts, project performance, jobs created, and money scheduled to be returned to taxing bodies. Information should be available before not after decisions are made.
• Give residents a binding vote: Dedicate a meaningful share of available neighborhood TIF funds to participatory budgeting, allowing residents to propose, evaluate, and vote on investments such as affordable housing, schools, libraries, parks, public health facilities, transit access, community-owned businesses, and cultural infrastructure.
• Put public needs before private profit: Require an enforceable “but-for” test, independent financial review, community-benefit agreements, labor standards, affordable-housing requirements, and clawbacks when subsidized developers fail to deliver promised results.
• End unnecessary stockpiling: Establish firm deadlines for committing TIF funds. Money without a viable, publicly approved project should be declared surplus and returned to Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Park District, libraries, and other public services that property taxes were intended to support.
• Build community ownership: Prioritize public, nonprofit, cooperative, and community-controlled development including social housing, community land trusts, worker cooperatives, neighborhood commercial spaces, and municipally owned infrastructure so public investment creates assets that remain accountable to the people.

Chicago creates world-changing music, but too much of the wealth generated by our artists, venues, and independent labels leaves the city through outside record companies, publishers, streaming platforms, promoters, and investors. My goal is to build the first Artist-owned Chicago music economy where creators can access capital, distribution, licensing, professional support, and global markets without being exploited by corporate ownership of their work. By investing in shared industry infrastructure and protecting independent businesses, Chicago can retain more jobs, intellectual property, tourism revenue, and long-term economic value while remaining a place where artists, not politicians or corporations control creative decisions and creative work.

• Keeping ownership in Chicago: Help artists and independent labels retain their masters, publishing rights, audience data, and long-term royalty income.
• Creating a public music investment fund: Providing fair, transparent financing for recordings, tours, marketing, studios, venues, and local labels through recoverable advances and low-cost loans.
• Building shared industry infrastructure: Establishing city-backed publishing administration, royalty collection, distribution, data, marketing, and licensing services that smaller businesses cannot afford on their own.
• Connecting Chicago music to major markets: Creating a licensing exchange that places local music in films, television, advertising, video games, tourism campaigns, and Illinois productions.
• Protect the independent ecosystem: Preserving neighborhood venues, support local studios and music workers, require transparent contracts, and prevent public programs from displacing the artists, labels, and promoters they are intended to strengthen.
• Participating in festivals:  Hosting outdoor and indoor music festivals that allow artist to live perform throughout the year, with lower ticket cost for residents, higher pay for performers, and music exposure for smaller artist. 

Data center are a strain on the local resources in the city. They cannot continue to strain the pockets of Chicagoans, as well as go unregulated. Congress or States have not been able to assess the harm or how these centers are used, and are also suspected to be used as unauthorized surveillance systems on American Citizens. Until this can be properly assessed, in addition to the huge environmental and local resource strain, they should not be brought into the city.

I propose:

• A moratorium on data centers, including the Quantum center, until we have the necessary information needed to asses the scope of how they will be used by the libertarian tech billionaires and current hostile U.S government.

• Making data centers pay their usage of utility cost, and controlling how much of the grid they consume.

• Returning energy utility ownership back to the city 
• Transparency in rates and fee charges 

Housing has been unaffordable for many people in Chicago for decades. It has lead to hundreds of thousands of residents leaving the City. The current measures taken by the previous administrations and councils simply has not been adequate enough to control the city’s housing market. Many people face evictions by anonymous landlords that may not even live in the city, and the ability to purchase a home keeps many people in the rental market. Chicago has the ability to directly make housing more affordable for all chicagoans at every income level.

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Chicago has a massive amount of public spaces it can use to help make the city a more enjoyable place to live. It should invest and coordinate more free programs for Chicagoans to enjoy across the city, not just downtown.

My Proposals

• Creating public owned entertainment venues to provide concerts and festivals that mirror Lollapolloza and other events
• Create more year round public events for residents
• Update the digital infrastructure of city department

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