A Mayoral Candidate's Vision for Chicago
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Until now, candidates have asked you to trust their slogans, cliches, and a few talking points. That era has ended.
The Holberg Plan discusses in detail the priorities, plan, and vision for what we can become together as a city. Joe lays out a practical, solutions-oriented, and detailed roadmap for how his administration will grow the economy, make life more affordable for Chicagoans, build housing, balance the budget, address safety and improve the CTA, and give every Chicago family a school that delivers a high quality education.
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The Holberg Plan: A Mayoral Candidate's Vision for Chicago
Chicago needs a fresh perspective and leadership that is willing to challenge the status quo. Candidates need to engage in honest conversations rather than hiding behind quips that leave voters trying to fill in the blanks.
No more hiding behind campaign slogans and hollow promises. The Holberg Plan is a starting place to discuss the shared future of Chicago.
The book sets a high bar for accountability and what Chicagoans should expect from Joe as the next mayor. Delivering results will always outweigh cheap talk. Let's get to work.
This plan is a starting place for collaboration. Residents, community members, business owners, and families all have a perspective. Agree with some of it, disagree with other parts, but know that your voice and feedback are valued and welcomed.
Each priority gets the treatment it deserves: what is actually broken, what it will take to fix it, and what has to happen first.
Cutting red tape, speeding up permitting, and making Chicago a place where businesses of every size choose to build.
Putting students first, confronting the 30% chronic absentee rate, and building real career pathways out of our schools.
The hard math on pensions, property taxes, and spending, and how we restore the city's financial credibility.
Why the affordability crisis is a supply crisis, and how we build in every neighborhood without displacing the people already there.
Community policing, violence prevention, mental health response, and a CTA that is clean, safe, and reliable.
Chicago once had 3.6 million residents. A concrete strategy for reversing decline and bringing people back.
Cheaper, cleaner energy, better air, lead-free water in every neighborhood, and more green space.
Rebuilding CTA operations around speed, reliability, and safety, plus safer streets for bikes and pedestrians.
After-school programs, youth sports, vocational training, summer jobs, and mentorship at scale.
Making Chicago a leader in AI, quantum, and clean energy technology, with the workforce to match.
Joe Holberg was the first in his family to graduate college, and he slept in his car to afford the tuition. That experience shaped a career spent on the practical problem of helping people get their footing: teaching math on the West Side, building financial tools for families who had never been given any, and creating computer science education used by millions of students.
The Holberg Plan is that same instinct applied to a city: name the problem honestly, then do the work of writing down a real answer.
Reserve your copy of The Holberg Plan and help us put a real plan in front of every Chicagoan.