Why (re)Chicago?

The chronic ills of the City of Chicago’s governance structure are many, including:

• multi-generational and institutionalized segregation and inequity;

• declining population, particularly in Black communities;

• two-decades of structural deficits; pension debt that ranks in the bottom 7 of U.S. states;

• unsustainable selling of city assets and bond issuances for operating revenue;
  

• consistent faltering of police reform and accountability amidst persistently high levels of violent crime all of which most adversely impact Black and brown communities and peoples;
  

• an underperforming and historically compliant legislature that is routinely ranked as the most corrupt legislative body of any big city in the U.S.