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.
Since he left the U.S. Air Force in 2014, 40 year-old Naperville City Council member Ian Holzhauer has completed the Chicago Marathon.
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."
A slate of Naperville City Council candidates are running on a platform of bringing more low-income, Section 8 apartments to the city's downtown.
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.
Naperville City Council Member Josh McBroom said he hasn't had any Naperville residents volunteer to house illegal aliens who have moved to the Chicagoland area. McBroom made the comments Thursday on AM 560's Chicago's Morning Answer with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson.
Naperville city councilman Josh McBroom comments on the sudden decrease of illegal immigrants moving into the Chicago area after his suggestion that affluent residents in the suburbs sign up to house those that the city could not.
Naperville City Councilman Ian Holzhauer, a real estate attorney, is listed in public records as receiving homestead exemptions on two separate Naperville properties, even though Illinois limits the exemption to a taxpayer’s primary residence for a given assessment year.