Swarthout gets nod in sanitary district

Incumbent James Swarthout is one step closer to spending four more years on the North Shore Sanitary District board.

Swarthout, the former Lake Forest mayor, took home the Republican primary nod for the sanitary district's Ward 4 trustee seat over former sanitary district employee Alan Santi of Lake Bluff.

With 30 of 30 precincts reporting, unofficial vote totals show Swarthout won 1,876 votes for 80 percent of the total vote, while Santi received 451 votes for 19 percent.

No one was on the Democratic ballot.

Swarthout has served the eastern part of Lake County on the sanitary district board since 1973, except during the time he was Lake Forest mayor.

During his tenure, Swarthout said he always looked at the position as a job and the district as a business, not as politics.

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