Empower Families Now

School choice is this generation’s biggest civil rights issue.

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What Kind of Chicago Do We Want to Live In?

Families will have the opportunity to change the direction of the city in April.

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For Immediate Release: Illinois Opportunity Project Launches Coalition To Stop Ranked-Choice Voting

Ranked-choice voting is a scheme to inject chaos into our election system and disenfranchise voters across the state of Illinois.

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Instead of Attacking Him, Pritzker Should Take a Page from DeSantis’ Policy Agenda

Florida is thriving for all residents, meanwhile Illinois’ policies are hurting everyone, including its most vulnerable

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IOP Statement on Pritzker’s Budget Address

A Failed Policy Agenda

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Celebrating Empowered Families

Expanding educational choice is an impactful policy that will improve the lives of thousands of families.

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Chicago Mayoral Election Preview

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Empower Families Now

March 23, 2022 By: Katie Clancy Governor Pritzker has grand plans for education in Illinois. Universal pre-k, larger investments in “evidence based funding,” and free community college to name a few. The only problem with these “transformative investments?” None of them provide tangible improvements to student outcomes. Unfortunately, ...
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What Kind of Chicago Do We Want to Live In?

March 1, 2022 By: Katie Clancy Lori Lightfoot’s failed tenure as mayor wasn’t because she was “dealt a bad hand.” It’s not because of race, gender, or sexual identity. And it’s not due to her tone-deaf Tik Toks, her infamous haircut during COVID lockdowns, or worst of all, ...
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For Immediate Release: Illinois Opportunity Project Launches Coalition To Stop Ranked-Choice Voting

February 28, 2023 Chicago, IL- The Illinois Opportunity Project launched the Stop-Ranked Choice Voting Coalition to oppose the confusing and disenfranchising voting system gaining steam in Springfield and the Chicago City Council. “Ranked-choice voting is a scheme to inject chaos into our election system and disenfranchise voters across ...
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“I’m Back.”

Illinois residents resoundingly rejected Governor Pritzker’s Tax Hike Amendment in 2020 that would’ve raised taxes on Illinois families and the over 110,000 small businesses in our state.

Now, it turns out that proponents of the graduated income tax did not learn their lesson and want to try again. Sen. Robert Martiwck (D-Chicago) plans on reintroducing a bill that would change Illinois’ flat tax to a graduated income tax within the next month. 

Don’t give the same legislators who just voted to give themselves an 18% pay raise more power to hike your taxes.    

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ILLINOIS POLICY

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The Illinois Opportunity Project believes that empowering and organizing people around our shared values is the most impactful way to change our State and strengthen our communities.

We use the neighborhood team model and relational organizing to empower individuals to change their neighborhoods and advance free-market principles into law.

This relationship-centric approach prioritizes the identification, training, and development of volunteer leaders. These local leaders build field organizations that drive voter contact, strengthen their communities, and create lasting policy and political change. It is a grassroots model that builds advocacy capacity from the neighborhood up, not the top down.

This approach of investing in people, building relationships, and creating a structure of cascading training and leadership development allows us to contact and educate voters on an enormous scale.

WE HELPED SUPPORT THESE LEGISLATORS THAT ARE COMMITTED TO LIBERTY & FREE ENTERPRISE

DAN UGASTE

State Representative - District 65

Dan Ugaste is an American politician and Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 65th district. The district, located in the Chicago metropolitan area, includes all or parts of Batavia, Elgin, Geneva, Hampshire, South Elgin, and St. Charles.

DEANNE MAZZOCHI

State Representative - District 47

Deanne Mazzochi is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 47th district. The 47th district includes all or parts of Elmhurst, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Western Springs, Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale, Westmont, and Downers Grove.

MIKE MARRON

State Representative - District 104

Michael T. Marron is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 104th district. The 104th district includes parts of Champaign and Vermilion counties in east-central Illinois.

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