Illinois’ 9th Congressional District: who’s running on Nov. 3, 2026

Supports stronger antitrust enforcement, the PRO Act and a $17 indexed federal minimum wage.

Supports free enterprise and job creation through local businesses with fewer regulations.

Supports a single-payer system such as Medicare for All after reversing recent Medicaid and ACA cuts.

Supports bipartisan help for middle-class insurance costs and HSAs; would keep Medicare and Medicaid without new programs.

Proposes abolishing ICE, a path to citizenship and banning enforcement at schools, churches and workplaces.

Supports bipartisan reform granting legal status to some and returning others, with enforced borders and visas.

Supports codifying abortion rights nationally and ending the Hyde Amendment.

Supports legal protection of life from conception, with exceptions for rape, incest and threats to the mother's life.

Proposes a wealth tax on billionaires, taxing high earners' capital gains as wages and rolling back recent tax cuts.

Told WTTW higher earners should pay their fair share and backed a balanced budget; on iVoterGuide he selected strongly disagree that those able to pay more should be taxed more.

Created Evanston non-police response program; supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, red flag laws and repealing the Second Amendment.

Supports law enforcement resources with de-escalation training and more treatment instead of jail for mental illness.

Supports more federal funding for public schools and Title I, and holding charters to public school standards.

Supports eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.

Supports a Green New Deal, a polluter-pays climate superfund and ending fossil fuel subsidies; passed an Evanston building-emissions ordinance.

Names fossil fuels and nuclear power as the most reliable sources for meeting electricity demand.

Supports Ukraine aid and diplomacy, and proposes shifting Pentagon funds toward diplomacy and development.

Backed the U.S. strike on an Iranian nuclear site and Venezuela actions and called Israel a key ally; also selected that the U.S. is too involved abroad and listed cutting foreign aid.

Supports legislation requiring congressional approval for tariffs; links recent tariffs to higher prices.

Told the Daily Herald he supports the administration's tariffs to level the economic playing field but said tariffs should not be a regular, long-term approach.