Two rival slates once again are meeting at the polls, where four trustee seats–three four-year terms and one unexpired two-year term–are up for election. Addison Concerned Citizens, the party that came into power in the 1985 municipal election with the victory of current village president Anthony Russotto, is facing Addison Team `87, the party long seen as the reigning local political power.
While candidates from both slates say there is no ”hot issue” on either platform, some leftover complaints from the now-defunct White Sox controversy are sure to be brought up, slatemakers agreed. ”The battle will be tough, not bitter,” said Lorenz Hartwig, spokesman for Addison Team `87.
Addison Team `87 has slated Thomas Tancula, of 1206 Scarlet Ct., for the unexpired two-year term. For the three four-year terms, the candidates are Lorenz ”Larry” Hartwig, of 348 W. Myrick Ave.; Don LaPato, of 614 Comstock Ave., and Charles Schlicher, of 523 S. Harvard Ave.
The Addison Concerned Citizens party has slated Debra Lieggi, of 1218 Hunter Ct., for the unexpired two-year term. For the three four-year terms, ACC has slated incumbent Richard A. Klein, of 1141 Old Fence Rd.; and Kenneth Walsh, of 714 Lawler Ave., and G. Thomas Kain, of 643 Saint Aubin Dr.
Running as an independent for a four-year trustee seat is the former village president, Angelo Chrysogelos, of 536 S. Harvard Ave.
BENSENVILLE
Candidates will run at-large for the three seats on the six-member Bensenville Village Board that are up this year.
Trustee James DiOrio, of 750 E. George St., was the only incumbent to have filed until late Monday, the final day, when petitions were handed in by the Unity Party slate, comprising Barbara J. Kolze, of 437 S. Addison St.;
Thomas Casey Hunt, of 930 W. Irving Park Rd.; and Joseph W. Krass, of 275 S. Barron St. DiOrio is running as an independent.
BLOOMINGDALE
The race for three seats on the Bloomingdale Village Board already has sparked considerable controversy, and for a brief time it wasn`t clear who would be running for office.
The Bloomingdale Village Citizens Party slate composed of incumbent trustee Walter Cropper, of 262 Sterling Lane, and newcomers Paul B. Sanders, of 336 Elmwood Lane, and Leslie Zimmerman, 326 of Old Mill Lane, is vying for the three seats with the support of Mayor Samuel Tenuto.
But the slate is being challenged by incumbent trustee Biff Behr, of 247 Lake Shore Lane, who is running without the mayor`s endorsem*nt. While the mayor and Behr have squared off publicly since Behr announced his candidacy, the two have not disagreed on many substantive issues.
In a bizarre development last week, the candidates suddenly withdrew their nominating petitions. According to Village Clerk Marie Tayfel, Behr was the first to withdraw his candidacy after realizing that his application was missing his filing dates. The other candidates followed suit. All have since refiled.
BURR RIDGE
In Burr Ridge, seven candidates seek to fill the three available positions as village trustees.
Incumbents Theodore Ahlgren, of 716 Gregford Rd.; William Zucek, of 380 Tamerton Pkwy.; and Leslie Murray, of 8215 Park Ave., seek re-election.
Opposing candidates include Leonard Ruzak, of 303 W. 79th St.; Faustin Pipal, of 7520 Ridgewood Lane; George Davis, of 431 Westminster Dr.; and Dorothy Sessions, of 11660 German Church Rd.
CAROL STREAM
With Mayor Janice Gerzevske stepping down to seek one of three seats on the village board, the race for mayor will be fought in April between incumbent trustee Jay Gould, of 1002 Bear Paw Ct., and newcomer Ross Ferraro, of 892 Dodge Ct.
Running for trustee along with Gerzevske, of 594 Commanche Ct., are incumbent Donald Phillips, of 185 Arapahoe Trail, Harlon Barron, of 922 LaCrosse St., and Thomas Glosenger, of 462 Illini Dr.
Donald Sutenbach, of 710 Buffalo Circle, is running for village clerk.
CLARENDON HILLS
In Clarendon Hills, with openings for village president, village clerk and three village board trustees, all five candidates are running unopposed.
Candidate Larry Reinsch, of 14 Tuttle Ave., seeks the presidency, and Kenneth Sloan, of 24 Golf Ave., the office of trustee.
Incumbent trustees up for re-election include John Purdy, of 44 Norfolk Ave., and Richard Zachar, of 30 Oxford Ave.
Village clerk Mary Arnold, of 29 Tuttle Ave., is seeking her fifth term.
DARIEN
As he seeks a second term, Darien Mayor Erwin Sirovy, of 7619 Sussex Creek, will be challenged by his political nemesis, Ald. Ivan Von Zuckerstein (2d), of 201 Peony Pl., in what promises to be a heated race.
Village Clerk Gertrude Coit, of 914 Cherokee Dr., also a member of the Du Page County Board, is unopposed for her fourth term, as is City Treasurer Louis McGuinley, of 7809 Farmingdale Dr., seeking a fifth term.
In the 1st Ward Robert Counsell, Jr., of 7734 Brookhaven Dr. is unopposed. Nels Olson, of 6729 Crest Rd., is challenging incumbent Richard Biehl, of 410 Maple Lane, in the 2d Ward. In the 3d Ward Thomas O`Donnell, of 8410 Carriage Greens Dr., opposes Michael Rusnak, of 7700 Wakefield Dr. Kathleen A. Bazon, 8301 Woodland Dr., is challenging 4th Ward incumbent William Stumpe, of 709 79th St., who was appointed by the mayor last year.
ELMHURST
In Elmhurst, half of the 14 aldermen are to be elected, with six incumbents, all affiliated with the dominant Community Party, and two former aldermen running. The rival People`s Party also has put up opposition in all but two of the wards.
The races shape up this way:
In the 1st Ward Florence ”Betsy” Aldred, of 274 Cottage Hill Ave., is seeking to regain a City Council seat after running unsuccessfully for mayor in 1985 on the People`s Party slate. She will be opposed by Harry Milkert, of 130 W. Church Rd., of the Community Party, in the only ward in which an incumbent is not running.
Incumbent Ald. Jane Bartmann, of 228 Bonnie Brae Ave.is running in the 2d Ward with no opposition as is incumbent Ald. Vicki Southcombe, of 524 Indiana St. in the 3d Ward.
In the 4th Ward incumbent Ald. Olivia Gow, of 145 Elm Tree Lane, faces People`s Party candidate Anton F. ”Tony” Debevetz, of 320 E. Church St.
Fifth Ward incumbent Ald. William H. Jones III, of 670 Fairview Ave., appointed to fill a vacancy in 1985, is seeking a full four-year term. He will be opposed by Virginia ”Ginny” Wachenheim, of 395 Montrose Ave., of the People`s Party.
People`s Party candidate Jay Webb, of 827 Colfax Ave., is challenging 6th Ward incumbent Ald. Frank N. Capparelli, of 641 Cedar Ave., while 7th Ward incumbent John F. Ferrone, of 371 W. Van Buren St., is opposed by John Jordan, of 859 Spring Rd., who is running on the People`s Party slate but formerly served on the City Council as a member of the Community Party.
The People`s Party lost its longtime grip on the council in 1983 and in 1985 also lost the posts of mayor, clerk and treasurer.
If any issue looms as a threat to continued Community Party dominance, it is the installation of athletic field lights at York High School in the 5th Ward. Though Jones, who is seeking a four-year term from that ward, opposed the lights, his party pushed them through and some of its members acknowledge that the candidates may be vulnerable on this score.
HINSDALE
In Hinsdale, village trustee J. Robert Meyer, of 434 E. Hickory St., is seeking to complete a four-year term after being appointed on January 13, 1986 by Village Board President Richard Miller, Jr. to fill the unexpired term of former trustee James Dunn. Meyer is running unopposed.
For the other two vacancies of village trustee, Theodora Koeppen, of 116 S. Grant St., and Edward Huskisson, of 111 N. Grant St., also filed. All three candidates are running unopposed.
GLENDALE HEIGHTS
Incumbent Trustee Michael DeLonay, of 51 Dennison Dr.; Plan Commission Member Michael Duff, of 47 Dennison Dr.; and newcomers Phillip Cassata, of 156 E. Drummond Dr. and Marilyn Liwanag, of 84 W. Montana Ave., will run for three seats on the village board.
In the past, DeLonay and Duff have criticized the board for its decision to purchase the Glendale Lakes golf course. ”The current village
administration operates for their own interests and not the people,” DeLonay said. ”The decision to buy the golf course exemplified that problem.”
”I want to bring honest, open government back to Glendale Heights,”
Cassata said. ”I don`t think there is any in Glendale Heights.
Geraldine O` Brien, of 1353 Leslie Lane, has filed to challenge Patricia Zacney, 256 Marilyn Ave., for the position of village clerk.
GLEN ELLYN
Because of Glen Ellyn`s unusual town meeting method of selecting village board nominees, three candidates will run unopposed for village board seats April 7. At the village`s Nov. 23 town meeting, six nominees presented their positions to residents, who selected three to run in April.
Although it is legal for a person to bypass the town meeting system and file as a candidate in January, no one did, village officials said.
Running for re-election to a four-year term is incumbent James P. Bourke, of 705 Hillside Ave. Also up for election are Jerold A. Morgan, of 501 Greenbriar Rd., who would be the first trustee from the south side of Glen Ellyn, and Jack L. Shanks, of 171 Sunset Ave., chairman of the village zoning board.
ITASCA
Three incumbent trustees are seeking re-election this spring on the Itasca Party slate. They are: Steve Hoglund, of 574 Theodore Lane; Jean
”Rocky” Runnion, of 205 S. Parkside Ave., and Karl Schmidt, of 510 N. Elm St. Challenging them for one of the seats is independent candidate Joyce Usher, of 313 N. Rush St., chairman of the Itasca Historical Commission. Usher is calling for the preservation of Itasca`s historical sites.
LISLE
Three four-year seats on the Lisle Village Board are up for election with five candidates vying at large for them.
Running are incumbents Walter Dow, of 4533 Shabbona Lane, and Harold O`Keefe, of 625 Gamble Dr. Current trustee Joseph Broda, of 6469 Coach House Rd., who was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board when a trustee moved out of Lisle, is running for his first elected term.
Also running are John S. MacDiarmid, of 4525 Devon Ave., and Steven D. Joffe, of 5269 Meyer Rd. MacDiarmid, a project manager at AT&T in Warrenville, is running for public office for the first time. Joffe is president of the Lisle Homeowners Association, which last summer opposed the building of apartment towers at the Four Lakes housing development in nearby
unincorporated Du Page County.
LOMBARD
Lombard village trustees are elected from districts and three of the six seats are to be filled this year.
In District 2, incumbent Edward C. O`Neill, of 146 E. Washington Blvd., is challenged by local businessman Richard Tross, of 752 S. Main St. Betty Jean Tully, of 134 N. Charlotte St., is trying to unseat incumbent Jo Ann Van Den Eeden, of 337 N. Lombard Ave., in District 4. In District 5, incumbent William C. Francis, of 826 E. Maple St., faces Danny DeLong, of 127 S. Westmore Ave.
OAK BROOK
Three candidates have filed for Oak Brook village board president, including incumbent Wence Cerne, of 18 Cambridge Dr., and village trustees Karen Bushy, of 14 Wyndham Ct., who received the Oak Brook Community Caucus endorsem*nt, and Arthur Philip, of 3412 York Rd., brother of Du Page County Republican Chairman James ”Pate” Philip.
Incumbent Marianne Lakosil, of 2 Pine Hill Lane, has filed for a fourth term as village clerk.
For village trustee, incumbents Ronald Maher, of 3602 Madison Rd., and Joseph Rush, of 3712 Spring Rd., both are seeking re-election to two of the three seats on the village board. All are elected at large.
Caucus-endorsed Kerry M. Krafthefer, of 1807 Midwest Golf Club Pkwy., seeks the other four-year term.
They are opposed by Mohammad Sarwar, of 120 Saint Francis Circle; Mack H. Shumate, Jr., of 166 Saddle Brook Dr.; and Garry J. Bartecki, of 45 Bradford Lane. Shumate and Bartecki currently serve on the advisory Oak Brook Zoning Board of Appeals.
A lottery will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Oak Brook Village Hall to determine ballot positions for village board president and for the first three candidates who filed for village trustee.
OAKBROOK TERRACE
Half of the six city council seats and the post of treasurer are to be filled in Oakbrook Terrace where all races will be contested.
In the 1st Ward incumbent Robert Leslie, of 1 S 481 Stillwell Rd., will be opposed by Fred Krok, of 1 S 065 Spring Rd.
The battle in the 2d Ward is between incumbent Ken Baumgardner, of 17 W 355 Elm Pl., and Steven L. Caslin, of 17 W 239 Stillwell Rd.
Candidates in the 3d Ward are Trevor Bull, of 17 W 718 Butterfield Rd., and Frank DiIorio, 1 S 570 Nimitz Rd.
Treasurer Clare Quinn is not seeking re-election. Those running to succeed her are Joey Rose, of 1 S 480 Wainwright Rd.; Ann Ventura, of 1 S 581 McArthur Dr., and Arnulfo Noble, of 1 S 476 MacArthur Dr.
ROSELLE
Incumbents Gail Smolinski, of 435 Fordham Pl., Jim Rak, of 620 Pinecroft Dr., and zoning board member Ronald Sass, of 1175 Mensching Rd., will run for three openings on the Roselle Village Board on the Roselle Village Party slate. Incumbent Gerry Walsh has decided not to seek re-election.
VILLA PARK
Villa Park`s filing closed with a dispute late Monday as Clerk M. Carol Reedy acknowledged that she had been using erroneous figures on which to base the number of signatures needed for trustee petitions.
The law requires at least 5 percent of the number of signatures from the last election and no more than 8 percent, so the precise figure is important. Michael Iozzo and Joanne Gross filed as independents for trustee near deadline time when the matter was cleared up.
Trustee candidates run at large and three of the six seats are to be filled this year.
Incumbent Tom King, of 29 S. Monterey Ave., also is running as an independent, breaking away from the Village Garden Party slate with which he ran in 1985 and citing differences with the two other incumbents who are running over several village policies and issues.
Those incumbents are Trustees Dennis Keating, of 511 S. Illinois Ave., and Emil ”Bud” Vittorio, of 560 E. Riordon Rd., who are on the Garden Village Party ticket with Larry Dean (Mieszcak), of 336 N. Mission St. Dean is chairman of the village`s Economic Development Commission.
Iozzo, of 1001 S. Rand Rd., is a member of the Villa Park Planning & Zoning Commission. Gross, of 444 N. Wisconsin Ave., is a director and past president of the Villa Park Chamber of Commerce.
Two years ago the Garden Village Party, as it was then called, captured five of the six trusteeships plus the presidency and clerk on a platform pledging to end the divisivness and shouting matches that plagued the incumbent board.
But the honeymoon was quickly over as the board ruptured into factions, some of them splitting again to produce the situation in which King finds himself, running on his own.
Though there has been none of the fisticuffs of the previous board, shouting matches have occurred with some frequency in the less than two years that the present board has been in office.
WARRENVILLE
In Warrenville, where redistricting last fall due to population shifts necessitated the redrawing of ward boundaries, five aldermanic seats are up for election.
First Ward incumbent Bryan Aschauer, of 28 W 675 Warrenville Rd., who used to represent the 3d Ward, is being challenged by Edward S. Halley, of 29 W 383 Candlewood Lane, and Karen Johanek, of 28 W 764 Townline Rd., for a four-year term.
Two four-year term seats are vacant in the 2d Ward. The candidates are incumbent Maury C. Goodman, of 30 W 280 Smalltree Ct., previously of the 4th Ward; Curtis Holmsten, of 30 W 270 Smalltree Ct.; Deborah Kruse, of 2 S 661 Hampton Dr.; Mark E. Collentine, of 29 W 553 Winchester Circle South; and Lawrence P. Jorgensen, of 29 W 566 Winchester Circle North.
Earl Brogie, of 28 W 551 Rogers St., and Ralph Taylor, of 28 W 516 Rogers St., are running for the vacant four-year term in the 3d Ward. The two incumbent aldermen from that ward, Ralph J.Esposito, of 28 W 504 Rogers St., and Glenn E. Ulery, of 3 S 360 Batavia Rd., will draw lots to determine which of them will serve as an at-large alderman, another result of redistricting.
Four candidates will vie for one four-year term in the 4th Ward. They are Anthony Kosidowski, of 30 W 090 Greenbrook Ct.; Fred F. Rizza Jr., of 29 W 381-A Emerald Green Dr.; Robert A. Baloun, of 30 W 249 Bedford Ct.; and Douglas Kullen, of 29 W 545 Country Ridge Dr.
WAYNE
In Wayne, two first-time candidates are vying for the four-year term as village president. The candidates are Richard H. Lightfine, of 32 W 501 Derby Rd. and G.F. ”Jeff” Tanham, of 32 W 492 Army Trail Rd. Incumbent village clerk Ernest T. Bellack, of 32 W 180 Glos St., is running unopposed for a second term. Five candidates are vying for three four-year terms on the village board. Incumbents Raymond H. Giesecke, of 6 N 260 Sulky Rd. and David N. Zilch, of 5 N 351 Robin Lane, are being challenged by James E. O`Brien, of 33 W 301 Brewster Creek; George W.F. Setton, of 33 W 895 Army Trail Rd.; and Edward L. Derry, of 33 W 675 Mare Barn Lane.
WEST CHICAGO
West Chicago`s four wards each have one vacant four-year aldermanic term in which incumbents, two without opposition, are seeking retention.
In the 1st Ward, incumbent Gerald Edgar, of 416 E. Pomeroy St., is being challenged by former alderman Christian D. Peterson, of 303 Fulton St.
Second Ward incumbent Colin E. Perry, of 1113 Southgates, and Third Ward Incumbent Donald F. Earley, of 120 W. Stimmel St., both are running unopposed. Incumbent Eugene M. Wind, of 522 Elite Ave., is being challenged in the 4th Ward by Alice Minaga, of 441 E. Washington St.
WESTMONT
With three seats up for election on the village board, incumbents James Addington, of 337 E. Traube St.; Edwin Burke, of 823 Franklin St.; and William Rahn, of 318 E. Des Moines Ave., have filed for re-election.
They are being challenged by three candidates representing the two-year-old Westmont Village Party, including Jack Hubeny, of 634 Newport Ave.;
Richard Starnes, of 403 N. Roslyn Ave.; and Roger Turczak, 317 S. Lincoln St. WHEATON
In Wheaton, half the four-member city council and the mayor are up for election and incumbents are seeking re-election to all the vacancies.
Incumbent Mayor Robert Martin, of 204 E. Harrison St., is opposed by Fred Mellenbruch, of 1515 Hyatt Dr., former mayor of Glendale Heights. Martin, a city council member for 12 years, is seeking re-election to his second term as mayor.
Incumbent councilmen Richard Anderson, of 2311 Appleby Dr. and Donald Knapp, of 1833 E. Liberty Dr., are being challenged by Donald Williams, of 213 E. Union Ave., and Gwendolyn Henry, 905 W. Elm St.
WILLOWBROOK
In Willowbrook, with three vacancies for village trustee and one for village clerk, all candidates are running unopposed. For village trustee, Ron Seick, of 7526 Arlene Ave., and incumbents Donald Kujat, of 5880 Virginia Ave., and Donald Conklin, of 6542 Stough St. are seeking election.
For the two-year unexpired term for village clerk, Patrick Spatafore, 7610 Apple Tree Lane has filed.
WINFIELD
Winfield`s acting village president John R. Walde, of 0 N 020 Ambleside Dr., is being challenged by Charles W. Kimball, of 27 W 291 Virginia Ave., for an unexpired two-year term.
In the village trustee races, two incumbents Dennis M. Thalman, of 0 S 461 Madison St., and Robert J. Nordloh, of 27 W 200 Bolles, are running against JoAnne Vitek, of 0 N 069 Coniston, and William Nolan, 27 W 380 Manchester Rd., for three four-year terms.
Running unopposed for two two-year unexpired terms are Marilyn A. Gladish, of 1 S 051 Normandy Woods Lane, and Robert J. Lee, of 0 N 307 Woodvale Dr.
WOOD DALE
Incumbent Mayor Jerry Greer, of 344 N. Cedar St., will be challenged by Ald. Dino Janis, of 235 Mont Clare Lane; newcomer Robert De Bartolo, of 515 Washington Square and former Mayor John Murray, of 245 Washington Square. Janis unsuccessfully challenged Greer in 1979.
”It`s nice to see people get interested in the town even if they are a threat to your job,” said Greer, who has been in office for 12 years. ”Half the town is running for something this year.”
In the 1st Ward aldermanic race, incumbent Patricia Gbur, of 305 Mont Clare Lane, has filed for re-election and is unopposed. In the 2d Ward, zoning Board members Lucile Warrick, of 190 S. Wood Dale Rd., and Edward Kneip, of 265 Edgebrook Rd., will challenge incumbent Ald. Janet Krebs, of 177 N. Oakwood Dr.
In the 3d Ward, incumbent Walter Lotz, of 263 Greene Ct., has filed for re-election and will be challenged by Elizabeth Hughes, of 476 Dominion Dr. Fourth Ward Ald. Roy Sye, of 392 N. Cedar St., will be opposed by Robert A. Kanowske, of 445 N. Oak St.
Jerry Jacobs, of 159 E. Potter St., is running unopposed for clerk and Myrtle H. Ciesla, of 289 N. Harvey Ave., has filed her candidacy without opposition for treasurer.
WOODRIDGE
Three village trustees will be elected to four-year terms in Woodridge.
Running are incumbents Michael Mimnaugh, of 2328 Crabtree Ave.; Gloria Ann Johannsen, of 6781 Greenleaf St.; and Richard E. Wood, of 2101 Wheeler St. They are being challenged for one of the three seats by Carl Pallaver, of 6013 Ridgeway Dr.
Ronald Potempa, of 3210 Woodridge Dr., who was appointed last year to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of trustee Joan Neumann, is running unopposed for a two-year term to fill the unexpired portion of Neumann`s term.
