John Kitover
Businessman and Army National Guard veteran. Candidate for mayor of Chicago, on the ballot February 23, 2027.
A self-described Republican-Libertarian businessman, podcast host, and National Guard veteran who ran for Congress in the 16th District in 2026. Filed on the last day.
Campaign website (johnkitover45.com)
Campaign money
No spending report found for this campaign yet.
Money figures are each committee's quarterly reports to the Illinois State Board of Elections: spent is total expenditures from January 1 to September 30, 2026 (or since the committee formed), cash is funds available on September 30.
Support
Not listed in the ChicagoSpeaks poll, Sept. 2026 (Mansueto Institute / NORC).
What they would do
- Freeze the property tax levy in his first year and demand pension reform from Springfield before any new tax.
I will freeze the property tax levy in my first year as mayor and demand structural pension reform from Springfield before any new tax increases are considered.
(Campaign site) - Says the city cannot borrow and spend its way out, and has floated bankruptcy over the pension debt.
We cannot borrow and spend our way out of this crisis.
(CBS Chicago, Oct. 2026) - Lower taxes to attract business and slash borrowing.
not more debt, not more taxes, not more of the same.
(Campaign site)
AI summary
Main points
Money first: A property tax freeze in year one, no new taxes until Springfield reforms pensions, less borrowing, and bankruptcy on the table for the pension debt.
Business: Lower taxes as the way to bring employers back.
Not published: Positions on police, housing, schools, or transit beyond the budget.
Next to the others
Only Kitover: Bankruptcy as an answer to the pension debt.
Property tax freeze: Kitover, Holberg, and Giannoulias would freeze the levy; Wilson and Kelly would lower it.
Party: Kitover and Carter-Walters are the field's conservatives in a nonpartisan race.
On money
Would freeze the property tax levy in his first year, refuse new taxes until the state reforms pensions, cut borrowing, and consider bankruptcy for the pension debt.
We cannot borrow and spend our way out of this crisis.
(CBS Chicago, Oct. 2026)
Pizza
No position on record.
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