Reed Showalter
Reed Showalter (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 7th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on March 17, 2026.[source]
Showalter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: Illinois' 7th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on March 17, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. Additional general election candidates will be added here following the primary.
General election for U.S. House Illinois District 7
Tekita Martinez, Nathan Billips, and Anita Rao are running in the general election for U.S. House Illinois District 7 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Nathan Billips (Independent) | |
| Anita Rao (Independent) | ||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 7
The following candidates are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 7 on March 17, 2026.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 7
Patricia Easley and Chad Koppie are running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 7 on March 17, 2026.
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 | Chad Koppie | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Reed Showalter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Showalter's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We must make housing more affordable. Housing is the most expensive thing in our lives, and it's getting worse. In Chicago, housing costs are rising 4 times faster than the national average. To combat this injustice, we have to both recommit the federal government to building housing, as well as addressing the issues with the private market.
I’ll push to have the government directly build more housing for people to sell at cost, so everyone can afford a home.
I’ll fight to stop giant, for-profit investors from buying up homes just to get rich, not to live in them.
I’ll ban big landlords from using the collusive algorithms that jack up rent prices for Chicagoans by over $450 a year. - We must fix our broken healthcare system, so that it is accessible and affordable for everyone. I support Medicare-for-All. In the meantime, as we build power to pass universal healthcare, I will work wherever possible to cap co-pays, deductibles, and out of pocket costs. I will fight to ban the middlemen that eat up profits in our pharmaceutical system or make them obsolete by doing that work ourselves. I will work to ban the corporate practice of medicine, expanding the existing bans in 33 states. And I will also push for our government to make critical drugs like insulin, inhalers, and chemo here in America, so we don’t have to depend on big pharma and insurance execs that hold healthcare hostage.
- No one should struggle to afford food. We have a duty to take back power in our food system from giant multinational corporations and return it to local communities that need good, healthy, affordable, responsible food. I support the creation of public grocery stores, as well as expanding food assistance through these public institutions. I will fight to ban junk fees on grocery and food delivery. I support a moratorium on consolidation in Big Ag markets, as well as increased regulation of bad agricultural actors, so that giant corporations cannot continue to drive up the price of food. And I will work toward creative solutions to make fertilizer and other basic costs cheaper for farmers so food is cheaper for all of us.
As an anti-monopoly attorney working in federal government service, I have seen how corporate power has not only driven up prices in every sector of our economy, but also completely overtaken our politics. We can take that power back for the people.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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