LWV of the Palatine Area hosting series of candidate forums
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The League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area will host a series of forums beginning next week for candidates running for village, school district and library district offices in the Northwest suburbs. Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, 2020
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The League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area will host a series of forums beginning next week for candidates running for village, school district and library district offices in the Northwest suburbs.
The League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area will be hosting a series of candidate forums beginning next week to help voters make informed choices in the April 4 election.
All forums will be run by trained, nonpartisan moderators and questions will be vetted in advance by a nonpartisan team to ensure they are fair and allow each candidate to present themselves in a
positive manner, according to the league
The forums will be recorded and made available on the group's YouTube channel via lwvpalatinearea.org.
The forums include:
• Barrington Area Library trustees candidates (virtual forum), 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 7. Moderator: Laurie Bergner of the League of Women Voters of McClean County. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.
• Barrington Unit School District 220 board candidates (virtual forum), 10:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 11. Moderator: Kim Inman, co-president of the League of Women Voters of the Palatine
Area. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.
• Palatine Township Elementary School District 15 board candidates, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 14, at Winston Campus School's multipurpose room, 120 N. Babcock Drive in Palatine. Moderator: TBA. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.
• Palatine Schaumburg Township High School 211 board candidates, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 15, at Schaumburg Township District Library, Rasmussen Room, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg.
Moderator: Lisa Slankard of the League of Women Voters Arlington Heights. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.
• Schaumburg Township District Library board candidates, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 18, Schaumburg Township District Library, Rasmussen North, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg. Moderator: Katherine Sawyer of the League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.
• Hoffman Estates village board candidates, 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 18, Schaumburg Township District Library, Rasmussen North, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg. Moderator: Katherine Sawyer of the League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area. Register at lwvpalatinearea.org.