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Carol Stream library board censures trustee

Trustee calls other trustee's girlfriend a patsy

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The Carol Stream Library Trustee Jim Bailey, right, pleads his case Wednesday as Trustee Dominick Jeffrey listens Wednesday. The board censured Bailey.

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The Carol Stream Library board holds a regular meeting Wednesday with the reconsideration of a censure resolution against Trustee Jim Bailey on the agenda.

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Carol Stream library Trustee Jim Bailey, left, pleads his case against being censured. Wednesday.

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Carol Stream Library board President Michael Wade and Trustee/Secretary Mary Hudspeath discuss the censure resolution against Trustee Jim Bailey on Wednesday.

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With a hotly contested election just months away, the fractured Carol Stream Public Library board censured one of its members Wednesday — perhaps triggered by statements he made in a Daily Herald article. In the Jan. 9 article, Trustee Jim Bailey called former library employee Elaine Wierdak — the longtime girlfriend of Trustee Dominick Jeffrey -- “a patsy.”