Meet Arthur

Arthur Siegel was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from New Trier High School in 1988 and attended Santa Barbara City College, Landmark College and San Francisco City College. His father was a mechanical engineer and owned a construction company in Chicago from the 1948 until 1977 when he passed from a heart attack, leaving behind his 7 year old son Arthur, 10 year old daughter, his second wife and two adult daughters from his first marriage. Arthur's father built the recently torn down Western/Belmont bridge, the Gypsum building, US Steel building in Gary, the US Post Office on Wabash, parts of the Chicago subway system and many other industrial buildings in and around the Chicago area.

In the last 25 years Arthur has been a musician, artist, auto mechanic, truck driver and carpenter. He started his first business in 1992, Janitorial Services, with a squeegee and some gumption. It was located in San Francisco, California and it soon turned into a lucrative full time job. Simultaneously he played drums in local bands in the Bay area. In 1997 his band went on the road and he took a job as a drum tech on his off time. His music business experience led him to open a drum shop in Berkeley, California. During that time he worked with local schools to develop music programs and put instruments into the hands of school kids. In 2010 he moved back to his home city of Chicago and started a handyman company.

Arthur was inspired by the campaign of Bernie Sanders' call to action and is running as an independent for Illinois state representative of the 14th district.

He will fight for fair treatment of all people regardless of age, race, gender or sexual orientation. He wants a living wage, clean energy, campaign finance reform, access to higher education for all, better schools and plans to sponsor legislation to make health care affordable.