“In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”

American politician

Mike Quigley is an American politician and Democratic Party member serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois’s 5th congressional district since 2009. He was born Michael Bruce Quigley. The district covers much of Chicago’s North Side and several western suburbs. Before his time in Congress, Quigley served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, representing Lakeview, Uptown, and Rogers Park. He also taught environmental policy and Chicago politics as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago. He is currently running for mayor of Chicago in the 2027 election.