A summary of Daily Herald endorsements in April 2 elections
Early voting begins Monday, March 18, for municipal offices and boards, school district boards of education and community college boards of trustees on the April 2 ballot. Here is a summary of Daily Herald endorsements in races of local interest. For the full text of our endorsements online, go to www.dailyherald.com/topics/Endorsement/.
Algonquin Village Board: John Spella, Jim Steigert, Debby Sosine
Antioch: Mary C. Dominiak, Ed Macek, Daniel Yost
Arlington Heights Park Board: Rob Nesvacil, Brian Owen
Arlington Heights Village Board: Mary Beth Canty, Robin LaBedz, John Scaletta, Tom Schwingbeck Jr.
Aurora City Council: Ward 1: Emmanuel Llamas; Ward 5: Carl Franco; Ward 6: Michael Saville; Ward 8: Patty Smith; At-Large: Sherman Jenkins
Barrington Area Library Board: Carolyn Welch Clifford, BarbaraPintozzi, CarrieCarr
Barrington Hills Village Board: Debra Buettner, Brian Cecola, Bryan Croll
Barrington Unit School District 220: Barry Altshuler, Leah Collister-Lazzari, Angela Wilcox
Barrington Village Board: Kate Duncan, Ryan Julian, Jason Lohmeyer
Barrington Hills Park Board: Dennis Kelly, Gigi Iacovelli
Bartlett Library: Dave Barry, John Sias, Parth Patel
Bartlett Park Board: Ted Lewis, Jody Fagan
Bartlett Village Board: Ray Deyne, Kristina Gabrenya, Adam Hopkins
Batavia City Council: Ward 2: Alan Wolff; Ward 4: Joe Knopp; Ward 4 (unexpired term): Tony Malay; Ward 5: Abby Beck
Batavia District 101: Cathy Dremel, Chris Lowe, Christopher John Solfa
Bensenville Elementary District 2: Robert Laudadio, Lori Parthimos, James Stoltman,
Bloomingdale Village Board: Vince Ackerman, William Belmonte, Patrick Shannon
Buffalo Grove Village Board: Gregory Pike, Eric Smith, David Weidenfeld
Buffalo Grove Village President: Beverly Sussman
Campton Hills Village Board: Wendy White Eagle, Susan George, Darlene Bakk
Carol Stream Village Board: Greg Schwarze, Mary Frusolone, Stephanie Biegel
Cary Village Board: James Cosler, Kim Covelli, Ellen McAlpine
Community Consolidated School District 300: Steve Fiorentino, Kym Garcia, Joe Stevens, Leslie LaMarca
College of DuPage: Marc Incrocci, Maureen Dunne
College of Lake County: Julie Byrne Shroka, Vaseem Iftekhar
Des Plaines City Council: Ward 2: Earl Wilson; Ward 4: Artur Zadrozny; Ward 6: Malcolm Chester
District 59: Courtney Lang, Randall Reid, Barbara Somogyi
Des Plaines Elementary District 62: Elizabeth “Beth” Morley, Tina Garrett, Kelly Morrissey
Downers Grove Mayor: Bob Barnett
Downers Grove Village Council: Rich Kulovany, Leslie Sadowski-Fugitt, Nicole Walus
DuPage High School District 88: Donna Craft Cain, Tina Haralambopoulos, Mark Turk, Amy Finnegan
East Dundee Village Board: Alan Hall, Jeff Lynam, Kathleen Mahony
Elgin Area School District U-46: John Devereux, Sue Kerr, Kathleen “Kate” Thommes, Eva Porter
Elgin City Council: Four-year term: John Steffen, Tish Powell, Toby Shaw, Dustin Good; Two-year term: Baldemar Lopez
Elgin Community College: Nazneen Hashmi, Clare Ollayos
Elgin Mayor: Dave Kaptain
Elk Grove Village Village Board: Nancy Czarnik, Sam Lissner, Stephen Schmidt
Elmhurst City Council: Mark Sabatino, Noel Talluto
Elmhurst District 205: Karen Stuefen, Christopher Kocinski, Gordon Snyder, Courtenae Trautmann
Fox Lake Village Board: Nancy Koske, Brian Marr, Dani Moore
Fox River Grove Village Board: Tom Anderson, Jennifer Curtiss, Patrick Wall
Fremont District 79: Gabriela Whipple, Aga Macoch, Michael Jandes
Gail Borden Library: Jean Bednar, Tiffany Henderson, Herb Gross, Amanda Garcia
Geneva City Council: Ward 2: Michael Clements; Ward 4: Gabriel Kaven; Ward 5: Craig Maladra
Geneva Community School District 304: Jessica Breugelmans, Michael McCormick, Alicia Saxton
Gilberts Village Board: Louis Hacker, Elissa Kojzarek, Dan Corbett
Glen Ellyn District 41: Jessica Buttimer, Ted Estes, Stephanie Clark
Glenbard High School District 87: Margaret DeLaRosa, John Kenwood, Mireya Vera
Glendale Heights City Council: District 1: H. William Schmidt
Grayslake High School District 127: Edwin Brown, Kathleen Conlon Wasik, Jonathan Reinoso, Erin Westphal
Green Oaks Village Board: Richard Glogovsky, Dan Sugrue, John Wagener
Gurnee Village Board: Greg Garner, Quin O'Brien, Cheryl Ross
Hanover Park Park Board: Mark Elkins, Miguel Fuentez, Ceferino “Cef” Grima
Hanover Park Village Board: Fanny Lopez Benitez, Herb Porter, Roberto Sepulveda
Hawthorn District 73: Robin Cleek, Sonali Patil, George Fievet, Joel Finfer
Hawthorn Woods Village Board: Michael David, Dominick DiMaggio, Steve Reiss
Huntley Community School District 158: William Geheren, Kevin Gentry, Ra'Shawn Walker, Timothy Griskey
Indian Prairie Unit District 204: Mark Rising, Justin Karubas, Natasha Grover
Inverness: Timothy Tiedje, Russell Fitton, John Willis
Kildeer-Countryside Elementary District 96: Michael Burns, Salma M. Syed, Meg Woodman
Lake in the Hills Village Board: Raymond Bogdanowski, Suzette Bojarski, Diane Murphy
Lake Zurich Village Board: Jonathan Sprawka, March Spacone, Janice Gannon
Libertyville Village Board: Donna Johnson, Scott Adams, Peter Garrity
Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area District 128: James Batson, Lisa Hessel, Katherine “Casey” Rooney
Lindenhurst Village Board: Trak Patel, Dawn Czarny, Patrick Dunham
Lindenhurst Village President: Dominic Marturano
Lisle Unit District 202: Four-year term: Daniel Helderle, Lisa Kiener-Barnett, Wendy Nadeau; Two-year term: Pam Ahlmann
Lisle Village Board: Cathy Cawiezel, Claire Goldenberg, Michael Olson
Lombard Village Board: District 5: Tina Tyson-Dunne; District 4: Andrew Honig
Long Grove Village Board: Michael Sarlitto, Chris Borawski, Chuck Nora
McHenry County College: Six-year: Molly Walsh, Tom Allen, Carlos Arevalo; Four-year: Suzanne Hoban; Two-year: Peter Suffield
Mettawa Village Board: Pam Fantus, Tim Towne, Pamela Sheldon
Millburn Elementary District 24: Carissa Casbon, Irshad A. Khan, Ardre Orie
Mount Prospect Elementary School District 57: Kimberly Fay, Jennifer Kobus, Racheal Rothrauff
Mount Prospect Park Board: Timothy Doherty, Bill Klicka, Michael Murphy, Lisa Tenuta
Mount Prospect Village Board: Yulia Bjekic. Richard Rogers, Colleen Saccotelli
Mundelein Elementary School District 75: Alexandria Avila, Fred Goldman, Kristie Fingerhut
Mundelein High School District 120: Joanne Anderson, Jane Siegal, Lisa Yaffe
Mundelein Village Board: Scott Black, Bill Rekus, Kerston Russell
Naperville City Council: Patty Gustin, Paul Hinterlong, Bruce Hanson, Patrick Kelly
Naperville Mayor: Steve Chirico
Naperville Unit District 203: Kristine M. Gericke, Janet Yang Rohr, Cecilia Fox
North Barrington Village Board: Jay Murphy, Janice Sauer, Lawre Weiner
North Barrington Village President: Eleanor Sweet McDonnell
Oak Brook Village Board: Michael Manzo, Edward Tiesenga, Asif Yusuf
Oak Brook Village President: John Baar
Oak Grove District 68: Anthony “Tony” Giamis, Amy Frantz, Agata Karpowicz
Oakton Community College: Theresa Bashiri-Remetio, Robert Boron, Cynthia Veremis
Palatine Elementary District 15: Zubair Khan, Nina Palit, Samantha Bray Ader,
Palatine-Schaumburg Township High School District 211: Kimberly Cavill, Peter Dombrowski, Steven Rosenblum, Will Hinshaw
Park Ridge City Council: Charles “Charlie” Melidosian
Park Ridge District 64: Rebecca Little, Carolina Sales, Denise Pearl, Lisa Page
Prospect Heights City Council: Ward 2: Kathleen “Kathi” Quinn; Ward 3: Betty Cloud;
Prospect Heights Mayor: Larry Rosenthal
Rolling Meadows Alderman: Ward 3: Laura Majikes; Ward 5: Jon Bisesi; Ward 7: Lara Sanoica
Rolling Meadows Mayor: John D'Astice
Rolling Meadows Park Board: Dave Andrejek, Donna Bisesi, Bill Cooley, Stephanie Ennis
Schaumburg Village Board: George Dunham, Mark Madej, Scott Felgenhauer
Schaumburg Township Library: Julie Wroblewski Bosshart, Jillian Rose Bernas, Theresa “Terry” Seyring
Schaumburg Village President: Tom Dailly
Sleepy Hollow Village Board: Steven DeAtley, Anthony Piraino, Joseph Nemec
South Elgin Village Board: Scott Richmond, Lisa Guess, Mike Kolodziej
St. Charles City Council, Ward 2: Rita Payleitner
St. Charles Unit Dist. 303: Kathleen Hewell, Rebecca McCabe, Garrett Seaman, Nick Manheim
Stevenson High School District 125: Terry Moons, David Weisberg, Amy Neault, Heena Agrawal
Streamwood Village Board: Jim Cecille, Rezwanu Haque, Mary Thon
Sugar Grove Village Board: Mari Melson Johnson, Heidi Lendi, Dave Paluch
Tower Lakes Village Board: Paul Kierig, Joseph Skurla, Christine “Chrissie” Mena
Vernon Hills Village Board: Michael Marquardt, David Oppenheim, Karimar “Kari” Brown
Villa Park Village Board: David Cilella, Donald Kase, Christine Murphy
Warren Township High School D121, three, 4-year terms: Thomas Drake, Rico D'Amore, Tony DeMonte
Warrenville City Council: Ward 2: Robert Wilson; Ward 3: Jeff Krischel; Ward 4: Leah Goodman
Waubonsee Community College: Richard "Rick" Guzman, Tina Medlin Willson
Wauconda Unit School District 118: Kathleen Bianco, Jonathan Feryance, Vincent J. Torossy
West Aurora District 129: Robert Gonzalez, Ira Lathan, Melody Saperston, Daniel Renz
West Chicago Community High School District 94: Bob Brown, Lynn Casey-Maher, Katherine Doremus
West Chicago Elementary District 33: Phebe Balzer, Rita Balgeman, Tom Doyle
West Dundee Village Board: Michelle Kembitzky, Thomas Price, Andrew Yuscka
Wheaton City Council: Suzanne Fitch, Erica Bray-Parker
Wheaton Mayor: John Prendiville
Wheaton-Warrenville Dist. 200: Chris Crabtree, Dave Long, Mary Yeboah
Wheeling Village Board: Maryann Rodriguez Liguori, Joe Vito, Dave Vogel
Winfield Village Board: Bob Greer, Dennis Hogan, Carl Sorgatz
Wood Dale City Council: Gandolfo “Randy” Messina, Arthur Woods Jr., R.J. “Sonny” Sorrentino, Michael Susmarski
Wood Dale Mayor: Nunzio Pulice