Politics & Government

Independents Sweep Mayor's Slate in Oak Lawn Trustee Races

One incumbent retained, another incumbent out. Three new trustees elected to serve on Oak Lawn Village Board.

Independents dominated Oak Lawn’s trustee races on Tuesday night, defeating Mayor Dave Heilmann’s slate of candidates.

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The mayor’s slated candidate Cynthia Trautsch lost to independent Tim Desmond in the first district. Trautsch had been appointed two years ago to fill the unexpired term of former trustee Jerry Hurckes.

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Desmond beat Trautsch 775-466, winning 62 percent of the vote in the first district, to fill a two-year term.

Alex Olejniczak was re-elected to his third term as the Dist. 2 trustee on the Oak Lawn Village Board, trouncing Mayor’s Independence Party challenger, by capturing 66 percent of the 1,525 votes cast in the second district.

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Olejniczak also ran with the Oak Lawn First independent candidates Desmond and Mike Carberry, the sixth district winner, who  celebrated their victories with Mayor-elect Sandra Bury at the Stony Creek Golf Complex.

Other winners in Tuesday’s Oak Lawn Village Board races were independent who won a three-way race over Mayor’s Independence Party candidate Tim Reilly and the incumbent Tom Duhig. Duhig beat Vorderer in 2009.

Vorderer captured 47 percent of the 1,683 ballots cast in the fourth district.

Mike Carberry took Dist. 6, beating out the mayor’s slated candidate Carol Sheahan and independent Joe Sorrentino.

Trustee, Village of Oak Lawn, District 1
8 of 8 Precincts Reported  Registered Voters: 6,121  Ballots Cast: 1,683 Turnout: 19.22% % Votes Cynthia Trautsch (Mayor's Independence Party) 37.55% 466 Tim Desmond (Independent) 62.45% 775 Trustee, Village of Oak Lawn, District 2
6 of 6 Precincts Reported  Registered Voters: 6,067  Ballots Cast: 1,683 Turnout: 25.14% % Votes Julie Misner (Mayor's Independence Party) 34.31% 514 Alex G. Olejniczak (Independent) 65.69% 984 Trustee, Village of Oak Lawn, District 4
7 of 7 Precincts Reported  Registered Voters: 6,121  Ballots Cast: 1,683 Turnout: 27.5% % Votes Tim Reilly (Mayor's Independence Party) 27.78% 460 Terry Vorderer (Independent) 47.4% 785 Thomas M. Duhig (Independent) 24.82% 411 Trustee, Village of Oak Lawn, District 6  8 of 8 Precincts Reported Registered Voters: 6,489  Ballots Cast: 2,245 Turnout: 34.6% % Votes Carol Sheahan (Mayor's Independence Party) 30.05% 663 Joseph Sorrentino (Independent) 28.2% 622 Mike Carberry (Independent) 41.75% 921


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