Advocacy Team
Advocacy at Access Living: December 5, 2022
Access Living friends and allies,
The race for Mayor of Chicago is heating up! The citywide election will be on February 28, so we wanted Chicago’s disability voters to hear from the candidates before early voting begins. Chicago has over 300,000 residents with disabilities, so the Mayor has a huge affect on all our lives. We would like to invite you to our hybrid, nonpartisan Chicago Mayoral Candidates Forum on January 7, 2023.
Access Living Disability Mayoral Candidates Forum
Key Details:
- Date and time: January 7, 2023 from 1-2:30pm Central
- Location: Fourth floor of Access Living, 115 W. Chicago Avenue
- Both in-person and remote attendance options available!
- Register for the Forum at this link
- We’ve also shared the event on Access Living’s Facebook page at this link, and on our Twitter page at this link.
To get ready for the Forum, we sent all mayoral candidates a disability questionnaire. We required this in order to participate in the January 7 event. Seven candidates responded, and their answers are posted at the Forum webpage at this link—go check it out! We think you will be very interested in their answers!
The following candidates responded and will have a slot at the Forum (in alphabetical order by last name):
- State Representative Kam Buckner
- U.S. Representative Chuy García
- Ja’Mal Green, neighborhood advocate and entrepreneur
- Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson
- Alderman Sophia King
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot
- Paul Vallas, education and public finance expert
This event would not be possible without our wonderful partners and supporters. Our Partners (sponsors) are: Active Transportation Alliance, AIDS Foundation Chicago, Disability Lead, Equip for Equality, the Illinois Network of centers for Independent Living, and the Statewide Independent Living Council of Illinois. Our Supporters are: The Arc of Illinois, Better Streets Chicago, the Chicago Area Fair housing Alliance, Legal Action Chicago, and the Legal Council for Health Justice.
If your organization would like to sponsor or support this event, please contact Frank Lally at flally@accessliving.org.
If improving the lives of Chicagoans with disabilities matters to you, don’t miss this event! Again, you are welcome in person or online. Please share this message with fellow Chicago disability voters.