Brian Hopkins

Running for this seat

• Filed with the election office: Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, October 30, 2026

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Background

Chicago alderperson, 2nd Ward

First elected 2nd Ward alderperson in 2015 and reelected in 2019 and 2023. Chairs the City Council Committee on Public Safety (appointed 2023). Previously director of the Illinois Coalition to End Homelessness and chief of staff to Cook County Commissioner John Daley. Graduate of the University of Illinois Springfield.

Holds this office now.

Left–right placement

Moderately left, from the giving patterns of their campaign donors (DIME campaign-finance score, Stanford). Based on the 178 donors to their 2018 campaign for city council. DIME doesn't name donors: it places each one by everyone they give to, then places the candidate by their donors Source

Links

• Campaign site
• instagram.com
• facebook.com
• mobile.twitter.com

Sources

• hopkinsforchicago.com/
• aldermanhopkins.com/about-alderman-hopkins
• chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/city-hall/chicago-city-council/2023-2027
• cboeprod.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/prod/2026-10/Candidate%20List_202