Economic Justice

What We Will Do

• Monitor and leverage opportunities to increase funding for critical services through the city and state budget processes.

What We Have Done

• Pushed legislators to embrace progressive revenue solutions through Fair Economy Illinois and the 15-day March to Springfield.

  • Listen to an NPR story about the campaign here

• Closed $125 million in corporate tax loopholes in the Illinois state budget in July 2017: After a long campaign with partners to keep the spotlight on the need for progressive revenue in Illinois, the legislature finally passed a budget including some progressive revenue, including 3 loopholes we had been demanding be closed. The legislature had to override Governor Bruce Rauner's veto, but the budget was adopted.

• With the SRO Committee of the Housing Justice Team, we helped to shepherd the Bring Chicago Home campaign to ballots in 2024 - a five year effort. Though this measure was defeated at the ballot box, it significantly changed public conversations around homelessness and motivated many people to look critically at city funding for the issue.