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INCUMBENTS, 1 NEWCOMER WIN
WARD 2 RACE A DEAD HEAT
EMANUEL WINS SECOND TERM
Incumbents Mark Saladin and Maureen Larson both won re-election to the Woodstock City Council, while business owner Daniel Hart edged out fellow first-time candidate Daniel Lemanski for the final spot. Hart led by a mere 30 votes late Tuesday night, according to unofficial totals. PAGE A3
Longtime McHenry City Councilman Andy Glab found himself in a dead heat with challenger James Walsh at 136 votes each, according to unofficial results. Mail-in votes have not been counted and could break the tie in the Ward 2 race. In Ward 4, challenger Scott Curry defeated incumbent Geoffrey Blake by 49 votes. PAGE A3
Rahm Emanuel won re-election Tuesday, beating Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in Chicago’s first mayoral runoff after failing to capture a majority against four other candidates in a February election. Election officials said voter turnout was high, possibly close to 40 percent once all ballots were counted. PAGE A5
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SCHOOL DISTRICT 155
KEY RESULTS
3 newcomers to join board
MUNICIPAL
Blazier, Kurtz, Guss prevail in crowded race
Harry Leopold 3 Niko Kanakaris 3 Darci Chandler Timothy Hoeft 3
By EMILY K. COLEMAN
JOHNSBURG VILLAGE BOARD
Mary Lou Hutchinson 3 Kyle Frost 3 Thomas Curry 3 Richard Janusz
CRYSTAL LAKE – Three newcomers will join the Crystal Lake-based Community High School District 155 Board, according to the unofficial election results available Tuesday night. Out of the crowded field of nine candidates, preschool teacher Amy Blazier, former educator and state Rep. Rosemary Kurtz and Adam Guss, a technical supervisor with Comcast, were set to take the three four-year terms. With just shy of 22,000 votes counted, Blazier Amy Blazier had about 23.7 percent of the vote, Kurtz had 19.7 percent and Guss had 13.8 percent, according to unofficial results from McHenry and Lake counties. McHenry County’s numbers included early and mailAdam Guss in votes while the one Lake County precinct did not. Neither county’s numbers includes provisional or late arriving mail-in ballots. The district includes all or parts of Crystal Lake, Bull Valley, Cary, Fox River Grove, Lake in the Hills, Lakewood, Oakwood Hills and Prairie Grove. The candidate with the next closest number of votes was Brian Pelz, formerly a District 155 science teacher who transitioned last year to the informational technology industry. Pelz had 12.9 percent of the vote, about 200 votes shy of Guss’s 3,015 votes. The sole incumbent running for re-election, Karen Whitman, trailed behind them with 1,777 votes, or 8.1 percent of the vote.
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J. Carl Davis Kenneth Santowski Gary Sexon II Paul Serwatka LITH VILLAGE BOARD
Frank Covone Bill Dustin Russ Ruzanski 3 Tyna Zarecky Ray Bogdanowski 3 Paula Yensen 3 McHENRY WARD 2 *
James Walsh Andrew Glab McHENRY WARD 4
Scott Curry 3 Geoffrey Blake
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Cecilia Serritella Robert Peterson 3 WOODSTOCK CITY COUNCIL
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District 155 School Board candidate Rosemary Kurtz waits for election results Tuesday at The Cottage in Crystal Lake. Kurtz received 19.7 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from McHenry and Lake counties.
McHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE
Parrish, Smith keep seats on board; Tirio joins pair By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com The two incumbent candidates will keep their seats on the McHenry County College Board of Trustees. Ron Parrish, of Bull Valley, led the race for one of two full six-year terms up for grabs on the board. He received 9,972 of the votes, including those counted in all four counties in which the college has precincts, according to each county’s election results. Trailing Parrish by 733 votes was Michael Smith, of Lakewood, who was appointed to the board in October to fill a vacancy created after a former trustee resigned. Receiving 9,239 of the votes, Smith said upon keeping a place
Erin Hauck Ellen McAlpine Steven Degnan-Schmidt Kimberly Covelli James Cosler HUNTLEY VILLAGE BOARD
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McHenry Counon the board, ty College Founhe’ll aim to direct dation Board more attention to of Directors, he the faculty, staff said. and students of “It’s been a McHenry Counprivilege for me ty College. Michael Karen Tirio to serve in those “I was sharing Ron Parrish Smith capacities,” he with constitusaid. “I think the ents tonight that one of my goals … is to get to a point college has grown and can continue to where we as the Board of Trustees are grow as a premiere economic engine of not the news every week, but that the McHenry County.” He said he plans to continue to faculty and students, and their successes become the real news through- foster relationships that “will help the college move forward,” such as out our community,” Smith said. Before his appointment to the those he said he already has with the board, Smith served as the treasurer, McHenry County Economic Developand ultimately as the president of the ment Corporation and the McHenry
County Council of Governments. Smith and Parrish beat opponents Scott Summers, of Harvard, who sat on the board from 2005 to 2009, and Jeffrey Hill, an Algonquin resident who was a college administrator at Westwood College from 2005 to 2014. Summers received 6,982 votes and Hill received 5,959. A third open seat on the board will be filled by newcomer Karen Tirio, of Woodstock, who ran on the same candidate slate as Parrish and Smith. Tirio swept opponent Matthew Hardt by more than 5,000 votes, receiving a total of 10,976 votes. She will serve an unexpired four-year term on the board.
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Robert Fetzner 3 Ryan Farrell 3 Curtis Wadlington 3 David Sunseri Benjamin Breitholtz DISTRICT 156
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