Lisa Nee
Cardiologist and former ICU nurse. Candidate for mayor of Chicago, on the ballot February 23, 2027.
Interventional cardiologist, former ICU nurse, and the whistleblower on unnecessary heart procedures at the Hines VA hospital; 59, grew up in Humboldt Park and lives on the North Side. A first-time candidate who filed 31,000 signatures.
Campaign website (lisaneeforchicago.com)
Campaign money
- Committee: Lisa Nee for Chicago
- Raised: $139K
- Spent: $89K
- Cash on hand: $51K
- Since the committee formed July 8, 2026, through Sept. 30. Includes a $50,000 loan from the candidate. Source
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). 0.0 points of support per $1 million spent.
What they would do
- Runs as an outsider who has watched systems fail people and is done accepting it.
I'm running because I believe we deserve a city where public service actually serves the public
(Campaign statement, July 7, 2026 (NBC Chicago)) - Safety in every neighborhood, not only some.
You want people to feel safe in their own neighborhood and that means every neighborhood.
(WTTW Chicago Tonight, July 29, 2026 (auto-transcript)) - Speed up the permit process and run the mayor's office as a collaborator.
The role of the mayor should be collaborating.
(WTTW Chicago Tonight, July 29, 2026 (auto-transcript))
AI summary
Main points
Themes: Affordability, safety, and fiscal responsibility, from a candidate who frames being new to politics as the point.
Safety: Every neighborhood should feel safe, not only some.
Money and permits: Grow the tax base, bring transparency and accountability to the budget, and speed up permitting. She does not rule out property tax increases.
Next to the others
Only Nee: Says plainly that property tax increases are not completely off the table.
Outsiders: Nee, Holberg, Brewer, Ma, Quinlan, and Carter-Walters have never held elected office.
Not covered: Transit and pensions, which several others address.
On money
Would grow the tax base and add transparency and accountability to the budget, and says she will not promise that property taxes are completely off the table.
I think you have to grow the tax base.
(WTTW Chicago Tonight, July 29, 2026 (auto-transcript))I'm never going to lie to people and say that it's completely off the table.
(WTTW Chicago Tonight, July 29, 2026, on property taxes (auto-transcript))
Pizza
No position on record.
Also on the record
- Ran Division I track at Loyola, and lives with her husband, children, and two dogs. (chicago.suntimes.com)
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