Chicago's urbanist political action committee
Building a stronger urban fabric through electing urbanist candidates.
Chicago Growth Project supports candidates who believe more housing, better transit, and people centered neighborhoods.
A civic agenda for housing growth, better transit, and people first cities.
Chicago Growth Project ties affordability, mobility, and walkability into a vision of a city centered around those who live and work here.
What can I do?
Browse upcoming events
Visit our events page to see what's coming and how you can get involved
Join a chapter
See if there's an already existing chapter to you. If not, consider creating one yourself!
Donate to Chicago Growth Project
All of our events, chapters, and volunteer mobilizations require donations from urbanists who care. Our organization is entirely volunteer driven and your money is going directly to efforts to organize volunteers and support for candidates.
Grass-roots driven
Our organization is a chapter first organization with a focus on decentralized decision making and autonomy to allow those who know the area best to make decisions.
Leadership team
Our goal is to provide direction and organizational support to chapters without directing top down. We want to provide support for chapters and the necessary financial backing and allow members to focus on growing and leading their chapters.
Volunteers
If you're not in a geography with an already existing chapter, we're happy to work with you on either starting one or just as a general volunteer.
Neighborhood chapters
Chapters are the core of our model, where these are local communities of people who care deeply about their leadership and electing urbanist first leaders.
PRESIDENT
Adam Drakulic Jr.
Serves as the chief brand ambassador, interacts with external groups, coordinates with candidates, and leads large fundraising efforts.
Chairperson
Paul Jacobs
Leads board process, governance, and formal chair responsibilities while helping keep the organization strategically aligned.
Treasurer
Noah Wright
Oversees transactions, reporting, and budget preparation so growth is paired with responsible financial stewardship.
At-Large Member
Franco Reyes
Provides broad member representation and additional oversight as the organization grows its citywide footprint.
A local answer to local problems
Chapters are the heartbeat of our organization and how we take urbanist politics to the next level in Chicago. We want to build hyper-local communities of electorally minded urbanists to work on local races. These communities will shift the electoral system towards urbanism - one event, one chapter, one office, and one election at time.
Recruit
Bring a friend, neighbor, or family member to our events. Let us know if you have opportunities to recruit like minded people
Organize
Host events, build relationships, and identify neighborhood priorities
Endorse and mobilize
Turn local energy toward candidates and issues that reflect CGP values when the organization enters endorsement cycles.
Grow
Develop new leaders and build momentum, cycle after cycle.