Naperville City Council hopefuls Allison Longenbaugh (L) and Rebecca Malotke-Meslin (R) hope to expand Section 8 housing in the city's downtown, if elected. | Facebook
Naperville City Council hopefuls Allison Longenbaugh (L) and Rebecca Malotke-Meslin (R) hope to expand Section 8 housing in the city's downtown, if elected. | Facebook
Naperville voters on Tuesday chose not to elect a slate of city council candidates who ran on a platform of bringing more low-income, Section 8 apartments to the city's downtown.
"Incumbent Patrick Kelly and council hopefuls Allison Longenbaugh, Ashley South and Rebecca Malotke-Meslin-- all Democrats-- are promising, if elected, to use city tax dollars to speed up Section 8 development in the city, arguing that Naperville has enough owner-occupied, single-family homes," reported the DuPage Policy Journal on March 30.
Only two of those candidates — Kelly and Longenbaugh — won in Tuesday's general election.
The four candidates winning election to the board were Kelly, who received 14,176 (13.59%) votes; Longenbaugh, who received 13,435 (12.88%) votes; Josh McBroom, who received 12,767 (12.24%%) votes; and, Nathan "Nate" Wilson, who received 10,111 (9.7%) votes.
Dan Proft, host of Chicago's Morning Answer on AM 560, responded to DuPage Policy Journal's initial story on the city council slate with a tweet asking, "how important are local elections?"
"I suppose it depends on whether or not you care about your downtown being ghettoized," said Proft. "It can happen in the suburbs too."
Following is a full list of the Naperville City Council election results, broken out by county. All results are unofficial results reported by the DuPage and Will counties as of April 5, 2023.
DuPage County results:
Will County results:
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