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Directly from his web site under Positions tab

Animal Control Issues
"Dog attacks, specifically pit bull and rottweiler attacks, make the news frequently. These types of dogs are also a street gang status symbol. Our police officers have had to shoot a charging pit bull seemingly every year. Some of the animals I’ve seen walked on heavy tow chains throughout our city’s streets and parks are large and forbidding enough to intimidate anyone.

While pit bull owners protested an earlier proposal directed at them and may feel singled out, one thing is for sure: When most dogs bite a human, they bite and run away because the dog is scared. When a pit bull bites? They bite and clamp down on their victim. Sometimes, only their death will cause a pit bull to release from a bite. Additionally, bystanders are less-likely to intercede in a pit bull attack than a poodle or cat attack.

I favor a plan where all owners of animals that attack or bite another pet or human will have their animal confiscated and must pay a substantial graduating fine within one week to get the animal returned. Animals not picked up are destroyed, as biting animals are not adoption-worthy. Unpaid fines are treated like any other unpaid city fee and attached to either the address of the attack or the pet owner individually."
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Nice way to be a chicken about a pro-BSL position after the city shot it down this year. Looks like he is trying to gather more "evidence" so he can re-open the issue



Also, found this here http://www.nopitbullbans.com/

The Chicago Tribune seems to have waited until today, which also happens to be the day the Elgin City Council convenes, to publish the article, Elgin’s new animal law won’t cover 2 recent dog bites. The article is about just that: two recent incidents involving dogs in Elgin. Funny, because the Courier News reported on these incidents almost 10 days ago in their Police Blotter. So why now Tribune?
Also of note is that while the Courier News reported that one of the dogs in question in one of the attacks was a “loose dog of unknown breed,” the Tribune reported that the dog was a “pit bull mix.” Even more curious is that Kristie Hilton, who identified herself as an employee of the Elgin Police Department, posted on Facebook saying the dog in question was a Rhodesian Ridgeback/Boxer mix (two breeds commonly and erroneously called “pit bulls”).
But the final cherry on this lying, smearing crap of a sundae is that Councilman John Prigge will almost certainly use this fabrication to start pounding the “pit bull” ban drum yet again. He promised as much after expressing hope that there would be another incident:
We need to have another occurrence to happen…and then there’s no turning back.
We predicted there would be some fabricated “pit bull” attack, the pretense of which would be used to push a breed-specific amendment to Elgin’s existing animal control ordinance. (And the other incident supposedly involved a Rottweiler, so will Prigge add even more breeds to his breed-specific hit list?) The Lord knows how much we wanted to be wrong, but since we’ve seen this modus operandi time and time again, we knew it would happen just this way.
There is no doubt now that Elgin is a target city for breed-specific legislation (BSL). So, does that mean Prigge has been promised something (like say a generous campaign contribution for the next political office for which he intends to campaign) by the cockroach powers that be if he can get BSL passed? This is, after all, Illinois, home of Al Capone, pay-to-play politics, and corrupt government. Would any of us be surprised? It also wouldn’t be the first time the Tribune has engaged in a smear campaign against “pit bulls” to aid in the passage of some onerous legislation like a breed ban.