Wheeling candidates disagree on village manager s raise Pat Horcher, left, and Mark Smith are candidates for Wheeling village president.
Updated 3/5/2021 5:11 PM
The candidates for Wheeling village president disagree about whether the village manager should have received a 7% pay bump this year.
Trustees in January voted unanimously to increase Jon Sfondilis salary from nearly $208,552 a year to $223,150 a year.
The move has drawn criticism from residents including mayoral candidate Mark Smith, who didn t like the political optics of giving that significant of a raise to a public employee during an economic crisis.
Conversely, Village President Pat Horcher said Sfondilis deserved the extra pay for the work he s done.
Posted3/3/2021 5:20 AM
Citing experience, passion for the community and an eagerness to cut spending, the three candidates for Hoffman Estates mayor explained this week why they should have the support of voters in the April 6 election.
Incumbent Bill McLeod and recently retired Hoffman Estates police lieutenant Mark Mueller shared their positions Monday during a joint Zoom interview with the Daily Herald. Both are running in slates that include three trustee candidates each. Nicholas Waryas, who is running independently, spoke to the Daily Herald by phone afterward.
Mueller said his passion for Hoffman Estates comes from growing up and attending school in the village, followed by a nearly 28-year career in the police department.
Watch the interview between candidates for Lombard Village President
Updated 3/3/2021 6:58 AM
Watch candidates for Lombard Village President take part in a joint interview with a representative of the Daily Herald Editorial Board.
The exchange between incumbent Keith Giagnorio and challenger Lombard District 3 Trustee Reid Foltyniewicz was recorded on Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
The election takes place on April 6. In-person early voting with paper ballots is available at the DuPage County Fairgrounds Building 5, 2015 Manchester Road, Wheaton. In-person early voting with touch-screen voting begins March 22 at locations throughout the county. Learn more at www.dupageco.org/earlyvoting/.
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Posted3/1/2021 5:30 AM
The two candidates vying to be Gurnee s next mayor disagree on how well the village has addressed concerns about the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide and what steps they can take going forward.
Village board member and mayoral candidate Thomas Hood maintains the village has done much by working with lawmakers who crafted new regulations regarding ETO, partnering with other municipalities to do expanded testing and keeping residents in the loop with 42 news updates so far.
David Weinstein, however, said the village has done nothing about Vantage Specialty Chemicals, a Gurnee-based manufacturer that uses ETO as a sterilizing agent and releases emissions into the air.