Bill Nienburg didn't attend the Downers Grove Village Council Meeting in which he was removed from the village library board. But he sent a letter stating his position.
A Democrat-majority Downers Grove Village Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday night to remove the only Republican, logistics executive Bill Nienburg, from its six-member, appointed village library board.
Downers Grove's Village Council would be violating state law if it votes tonight to remove Bill Nienburg from the village library board over policy disagreements.
The village council of Downers Grove will consider a resolution removing a member from the village library board who has clashed with its "progressive" majority.
A man shot and killed in a mass DuPage County shooting last week had dozens of previous encounters with law enforcement, including arrests for battery, residential burglary, attempted robbery, home invasion and driving while intoxicated.
An Itasca-based law firm with long ties to the DuPage County Republican Party created a company that made an anonymous $5,000 donation in support of Democrat Deborah Conroy's successful 2022 bid for DuPage County Board Chairman.
A candidate for Lombard's library board says that, if elected, he will deliver a "full audit of all expenditures, contracts and vendors" involved in the construction of the village's new library, recently completed at a taxpayer cost of $27.7 million.
While on the Naperville City Council, Mayoral candidate Benny White voted to send more than $50,000 in taxpayer funds to a non-profit run by his wife, city records show.
On the eve of the April 4 consolidated elections, a Downers Grove school board candidate has directed $25,000 in funds from a local non-profit he controls to school leaders backing him.
Former State Representative and U.S. Army veteran Jeanne Ives said a state law exempting disabled veterans from property taxes was intended to help the "severly disabled," not "marathoners" and "partners in law firms" with "$1 million homes."
Naperville City Council member and mayoral candidate Benjamin M. White says he wants to spend city taxpayer dollars on "green energy," mental health trainings and "diversity and inclusion" initiatives.
Before announcing her run for Community High School District 99 school board, the wife of U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Downers Grove) sought to discuss her candidacy with the district's superintendent, who she would oversee if elected.