Municipal Elections: 3 Big Kahunas, 21 Board Contested Races in Kane County
Holy municipal elections, Batman!
I’m counting and double-counting, so if I get this wrong, let me know, but the tally appears to be 24 municipal races coming up in Kane County that will be decided by voters on April 7.
Of those, three are for the Big Kahuna, the mayor or village president, and 21 are in the category of board member — alderman or trustee, depending on the municipality.
And those are just the contested races on the ballot. In the Campton Hills race for village president, Village Trustee Harry Blecker is facing off against Village President Patsy Smith, who is running as a write-in candidate.
Just as an FYI, the basic difference between a city and a village form of government is that the city elects a mayor and aldermen, generally two aldermen from each ward, and a village elects a village president and trustees. Aldermen (alderpersons, ward representatives — hard to find a gender-neutral term that trips lightly off the tongue) represent a certain geographic part of town (a ward), while trustees are elected at large and represent the whole town.
The biggest of the Big Kane-huna races is in Elgin, a city of 110,145 people, where David Kaptain and Joseph P. Galvan are squaring off. In Pingree Grove, the contest for village president is between Greg L. Marston and Steve Wiedmeyer. In Lilly Lake, Mike Louis Carlson goes up against Jesse Heffernan in the race for village president.
As another FYI, Kane County has two organizations that run elections — the Kane County Clerk’s Office and the Aurora Election Commission. In this tally, there are two contested aldermanic races in Aurora. The rest are on the Kane County ballot.
CITY OF ELGIN |
| FOR MAYOR (Vote for ONE) |
| David Kaptain |
| Joseph P. Galvan |
| FOR CITY COUNCILMAN (Vote for FOUR) |
| Jaime L. Hjelm |
| F. John Steffen |
| Fred Moulton |
| Andrew R. Cuming |
| Mohammad “Mo” Iqbal |
| Tish S. Powell |
| Kyle Scifert |
| Julie A. Schmidt |
| Toby Shaw |
| Rose Martinez |
| Jason Dusenberry |
CITY OF GENEVA
| CITY OF GENEVA, WARD 1 |
| FOR ALDERMAN, WARD 1 (Vote for ONE) |
| Pat Lenski |
| Tara Burghart |
| CITY OF GENEVA, WARD 4 |
| FOR ALDERMAN, WARD 4 (Vote for ONE) |
| James Radecki |
| Eleanor Hamilton |
CITY OF ST CHARLES
| CITY OF ST CHARLES, WARD 3 |
| FOR ALDERMAN, WARD 3 (Vote for ONE) |
| Todd A. Bancroft |
| Naomi A. Bosko |
| CITY OF ST CHARLES, WARD 4 |
| FOR ALDERMAN, WARD 4 (Vote for ONE) |
| Steven Gaugel |
| Matthew (Matt) Dowling |
VILLAGE OF BARRINGTON HILLS |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Mary Naumann |
| Karen Selman |
| Patty Meroni |
| Bryan C. Croll |
| Michelle Nagy Maison |
| Brian D. Cecola |
VILLAGE OF BURLINGTON |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| John D. Totemeier |
| James L. Daffron, Jr. |
| Al Vonderlack |
| Duane “Curly” Wilkison |
VILLAGE OF CAMPTON HILLS
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Susan P. George |
| Michael T. O’Dwyer |
| Laura B. Andersen |
| Steven D. Galloway |
VILLAGE OF CARPENTERSVILLE |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Don Burroway |
| Jeffrey M. Sabbe |
| Humberto Garcia |
| Christopher Scholl |
| Sara Miller |
| Paul J. Humpfer |
VILLAGE OF EAST DUNDEE |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Alan L. Hall |
| Jeffrey J. Lynam |
| Jerald Bartels |
| Allen Skillicorn |
VILLAGE OF ELBURN |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| William C. Grabarek |
| David J. Gualdoni |
| John D. Krukoff |
| Michael John Rullman |
VILLAGE OF HAMPSHIRE |
| FOR TRUSTEE TO SERVE A 4-YEAR TERM (Vote for THREE) |
| Toby Koth |
| Janet Kraus |
| Rob Whaley |
| Orris C. Ruth |
VILLAGE OF HOFFMAN ESTATES |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Gary J. Pilafas |
| Anna Newell |
| Gary G. Stanton |
| Cary J. Collins |
VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Harry Leopold |
| Niko Kanakaris |
| Darci Chandler |
| Timothy J. Hoeft |
VILLAGE OF KANEVILLE |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| David Kovach |
| Paul Ross |
| Myra Ottoson |
| Delbert Ward |
| Howard Christopher |
VILLAGE OF LILY LAKE |
| FOR PRESIDENT (Vote for ONE) |
| Mike Louis Carlson |
| Jesse Heffernan |
VILLAGE OF MONTGOMERY |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Stanton J. “Stan” Bond |
| Douglas Marecek |
| Peter Heinz |
| Will Nanzer |
VILLAGE OF NORTH AURORA |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Mark Guethle |
| Mark J. Carroll |
| Laura Curtis |
| Anise M. Hesson |
| Allen Cavender |
VILLAGE OF PINGREE GROVE |
| FOR PRESIDENT (Vote for ONE) |
| Greg L. Marston |
| Patrick R. Whalen (Withdrawn) |
| Steve Wiedmeyer |
| FOR TRUSTEE (Vote for THREE) |
| Bernard J. Thomas |
| Robert C. Spieker |
| Joseph J. Nowosielski, II |
| Brian Paszkiewicz |
VILLAGE OF SOUTH ELGIN
| FOR TRUSTEE TO SERVE A 4-YEAR TERM (Vote for THREE) |
| Michael Kolodziej |
| Scott G. Richmond |
| Lisa Guess |
| William DiFulvio |
Aurora Election Commission
Alderman – Ward 1:
(Vote for 1)
- Fred Collier
- Kristina ‘Tina’ A. Bohman
Alderman – Ward 5:
(Vote for 1)
- Carl Franco
- Steve Solarz
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