About William

64 years old

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Walls graduated from Tuskegee University in 1980 and IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1986. He served as Assistant to Mayor Harold Washington from 1983 to 1986 and went on to work as the National Political Director for Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's Rainbow PUSH. He has previously run for mayor in 2007 and 2011, and ran for Congress in 2008.

If elected, Walls supports an elected school board where the chief executive officer is a certified educator.^[1]

In order to "immediately reduce the number of violent crimes," Walls would declare a State of Emergency in order to implement a series of specific actions including suspending all police officer vacations and furlough days; conducting "high visibility" outdoor roll calls and academy recruit training in and around high crime areas; stopping police from writing parking tickets. He would also replace the vast majority of sworn officers presently assigned to office duty with civilians and reassign officers to street patrol.^[2]

If elected Walls would work to reduce the city's debt by transitioning from a "Debt to Fund Services" system to a "Pay as You Go" revenue and expenditure system. He would also cut the government utility costs by modernizing for efficiency in all city facilities. If mayor, Walls would offer city employees the option of a ten hour a day, four day a week, forty hour work week to reduce daily start-up costs.^[3]

Walls has outlined a number of initiatives to encourage economic development: Cutting Procurement Department red tape, unbundling government contracts, and, providing wrap up bonding and insurance. If elected, Walls would establish a City Start-up Capital loan program for equipment and payroll to enable more business' to submit bids for city work.^[3]

If elected, Walls would institute a plan to create 20 Big Box Grocery stores, and 60 mid-sized Neighborhood Markets. Walls supports the allowance of "cook-on-site food trucks" in the city.^[4]

No specific policy has been suggested in the party's current platform.