Community volunteer appointed to Mundelein village board
A community volunteer has been appointed to an open seat on Mundelein’s village board.
Monique Davis had been selected for the post by Mayor Robin Meier, and trustees unanimously supported that nomination during Monday night’s board meeting. After the vote, Davis took a seat on the dais and participated in the rest of the scheduled session.
Davis is the board president of the Mundelein Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association, a nonprofit group that aims to promote and support the police department. Professionally, Davis is a behavioral health therapist at City of Hope Cancer Center Chicago in Zion.
In an email after the meeting, Meier said she nominated Davis for the trustee post because of her accomplishments with the alumni association, of which the mayor also is a member.
“Her dedication and contributions to Mundelein are phenomenal,” Meier said. Davis’ experience as a mental health professional is “an added bonus,” Meier said.
Breaking tradition, Davis didn’t recite an oath of office before joining the board. That customary recitation isn’t legally required, Village Administrator Eric Guenther said. Davis signed a card acknowledging her appointment, he said.
Davis is the only Black person on the board. But Meier insisted race didn’t factor in her choice.
Davis’ appointment comes as village officials are under public pressure following the May 11 fatal shooting of 37-year-old Mary Alice Love while she was armed with knives during a reported mental health crisis.
Members of Love’s family and some of their allies have said she was shot because she was Black, and they’ve commented on the previous lack of Black trustees.
During the public comment section of Monday’s meeting, several audience members congratulated Davis on her appointment before criticizing Mundelein officials and police over the shooting and the duration of the ongoing investigation.
Davis succeeds Jennifer Grieco, who resigned from the board Aug. 18 after serving less than two years of the four-year term to which she was elected in 2025. Davis’ seat will be up for election in April 2027.
Four days before Grieco resigned, she had been taken to a hospital by Mundelein paramedics after a Mundelein police officer found her intoxicated inside a local liquor store, a police report acquired by the Daily Herald through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act revealed. She wasn’t charged.
Grieco had been arrested in September 2025 and charged with driving under the influence after a two-vehicle crash in Libertyville. She eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation, among other penalties.
Just days after resigning, Grieco was arrested and charged with driving under the influence near Lake Bluff. That case is pending.
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