Nate walking with Hugh on a tree-lined West Side street

Platform

Aldermen and women wield a tremendous amount of power - power to close the gaps that exist in our communities. These are the four commitments at the center of my campaign.

This platform reflects my research, my time living on the West Side, and the conversations I've had so far with community leaders and neighbors. Starting in August, I'll be conducting a listening tour across every neighborhood in the 27th Ward, and this platform will be updated to reflect what I hear. Strong local government starts with listening, and I intend to earn the right to lead by doing that first.

Development That Delivers For Residents

The 27th Ward is in the middle of one of the biggest development booms in Chicago. But ride the Madison bus across this ward and you'll pass neighborhoods still waiting for any of it to show up on their block. Growth isn't the problem. Who benefits from it is.

Safer Neighborhoods Through Prevention

Cities only work when people feel safe. Since my wife and I bought our home on the 2300 block of West Warren, we've experienced this firsthand. Safety is the precondition for everything else, and the research shows this problem is more solvable than the headlines suggest.

Give Our Young People Some Hope

When teenagers flood neighborhoods across Chicago, the city's response is always the same: shut it down. The conversation that follows is entirely about how to stop it from happening again, not about why it keeps happening in the first place.

A Government That Listens, Shows Up, and Works

Most people's experience of government isn't a policy, it's a phone call that goes unanswered, a form they can't figure out, a meeting they never heard about. This ward deserves better, and I've spent my career making exactly this kind of change happen.