Priorities

I believe clean water is a human right. It is intolerable that there are still 385,000 lead water service lines to homes. I have a plan to immediately put in place a program to inventory all lead service lines, disclose their location to residents, create a replacement schedule, and bundle replacements geographically for cost efficiencies and to minimize further displacement of lead into drinking water.

The time is long overdue for Chicago to show dignity and respect for transgender lives. When Toni is mayor, she will work with Cook Co. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and the proposed Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to prioritize investigating the many unsolved murders of transgender women of color and designate the cases as suspected hate crimes. She’s also committed to reforming the Chicago Police Department’s policy on interactions and detainment of transgender individuals, in line with proposals by the ACLU, the Transformative Justice Law Project, and many others. In addition, Toni will require that there is transgender representation on the city’s Civilian Office and Police Accountability board.

One of the biggest challenges facing the next mayor of Chicago is addressing the severe racial economic inequality in the city. To do this, the next mayor must focus significantly more attention and resources on the communities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. Toni believes one of our first responsibility as government is to ensure that there is equitable public investment in public education, public safety, health care, transportation infrastructure, and housing in our communities. Our other responsibility, when necessary, is to intervene when private markets have failed due to misinformation and frankly, discrimination.