Mike Quigley
Candidate for Mayor, Chicago, on the ballot February 23, 2027
AI summary
The platform
Housing: Build or preserve 50,000 homes in four years. Allow four-flats, courtyard buildings, and backyard units across the city, and send TIF money to affordable housing. Quigley rejects new rent restrictions.
Police: Move 600 officers from desk jobs back to patrol instead of hiring 1,000 more, cap overtime, and replace eight oversight bodies with one elected board.
Prevention: Mental health teams on crisis calls, reopened neighborhood mental health clinics, and more funding for violence intervention groups.
Budget: Start with $530 million to $1.3 billion in yearly savings that a city-paid report already identified.
Next to the other candidates
Only Quigley: A housing target, 50,000 homes. Cardenas would legalize the same building types without a number.
Renters: Quigley rejects new rent restrictions. Brewer and Cardenas stress protecting renters from displacement.
Mental health: Holberg, Quigley, and Carlisle would send mental health teams to crisis calls. Quigley and Carlisle would also reopen neighborhood mental health clinics.
Not covered so far: Schools and transit. Holberg, Kelly, Wilson, Carlisle, and Su address both.
the more perfect platform
Imported from quigleyforchicago.com
- Housing: Establish vision and leadership: We need a northstar goal: at least 50,000 homes in four years. Last year, Chicago delivered only about 1,100 new affordable units under the current ARO, while facing an affordable housing…
- Public Safety: We can't arrest our way out of every problem, but we also can't ignore violent crime and hope it disappears. Chicago needs a public safety strategy that recognizes both realities. Today, we're asking too much of a police…
- City Budget: I grew up in a modest home on my dad's union telephone company salary and my mom's union teacher salary. They were strict about money and always reminded me that once I earned my own, I'd understand how hard it was to…