Tinley Park incumbents Michael Mueller and William Brennan, along with Ken Shaw, on the One Tinley Park ticket led the unofficial vote count Wednesday, each with more than 27% of the vote with Trustee Diane Galante, who sought reelection as an independent, trailing with 16%, according to the Cook County clerk numbers.
Official results will not be known for a couple weeks as election authorities await mail-in ballots and possible provisional ballots.
Three of four seats were contested on the Markham City Council. Ward 1 incumbent Brenna Hampton-Houser finished with 63.4% of the vote over challenger David H. Walker and Ward 2 incumbent Wanda Jean McDowell had 78.5% of the vote over challenger Lenise Y. Neal.
In Ward 3, where Ald. Rondal Jones did not seek another term, Joseph G. Bertrand Jr. had 72% of the vote holding a comfortable lead over Terry White and Laurence Patterson II.
Voters in Hazel Crest were to decide a hotly contested race as seven candidates vied for three seats and unofficial results remain close.
Independent Sandra Alexander led with 16.5% of the vote, followed by incumbent Sandra Slayton led with 115.9% and Carmilla Malone with 15.7%.
Independent Poortia Slay followed with 14.7% of the vote, just 45 votes behind Malone. Incumbents Benjamin Ramsey and Mary Grant, who ran with Slayton as the Hazel Crest United Party, received 14.4% and 13.2% of the vote, respectively.
Homewood voters were to decide a contest that saw four vie for three seats on the Village Board. Incumbents Jay Heiferman and Julie Willis of the Greater Homewood Party received 25.7% and 26.1% of the vote, respectively, followed by independent Anne Colton with 24.5% of the voote. Incumbent Chenise “Cece” Belue trailed with 23.7% of the vote.
In Olympia Fields, voters faced six candidates for three seats and appear to have ousted incumbent Desiree Watkins, who received 12.75% of the vote. Vote leaders were incumbent Sandra Finley with 21.7% of the vote and challengers Kenneth Smith and Jennifer Beasley, each with just more than 19% of the vote.
Five candidates were in a race for three seats on the Park Forest Village Board. Incumbent Tiffani Graham led the vote with 27.2%, followed by Randall J. White Jr. with 20.4% and John V. Moore with 18%. Trailing were Joshua Travis with 17.4%, but just 26 frewer votes than Moore, and Andrew Gladsone at 16.9%.
In Palos Heights, incumbent Ward 3 Ald. Brent Lewandowski held a big lead over challenger George Popelka with 64% of the vote.
In Frankfort, six candidates sought three seats on the Village Board. Jessica Petrow, Adam Borrelli and Maura A. Rigoni all had more than 25% of the vote, besting Marc Dabaco and Hillary E. Kurzawa who both had about 11.5%.
In Burnham, seven vied for three, four-year seats and incumbent village trustees led the vote with Brenda Greer at 22.4% of the vote followed by Graciela Garcia and Carmella Richardson with nearly 20% each. Antwon T. Russell was the closest challenger at 17.5% while the other three candidates drew less than 10% of the vote.
Incumbent Jeffery Hodges had 69.7% of the vote in the race for a two-year term against Markita L. Alexander.
Six ran for three seats on the Dixmoor Village Board in a contentious election. A judge reinstated three challengers after the local electoral board threw them off ballots. Incumbents Teatroy Webster, Toni Mitchell and Judnita Smith all had more than 22% of the vote over former trustees Alda Leavy-Skinner, Cynthia J. Mossuto and Raymond Lavigne, who all came in below 12% of the vote.
In Dolton, most of the action occurred during the Feb. 28 primary when nine candidates battled for three seats. Incumbents Andrew Holmes and Tammie Brown appeared on Tuesday’s ballots with Stan Brown, who received more votes than incumbent Edward Steave.
Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard supported the candidacy of write-in Linda Terell, but the Cook County clerk’s office as not expected to post results Tuesday of write-in votes.
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In East Hazel Crest, four ran for three seats as incumbents Zoe Ewan, Kevin D. Johnson and John M. Kearns were challenged by Louis M. Dutka Jr., who trailed by seven votes with all precincts reporting.
Four filed for three seats on the Flossmoor Village Board as Rich Township clerk Arlene M. “Sugar” Al-Amin challenged incumbent trustees James C. Mitros, Rosalind Mustafa and George W. Lofton III. Mustafa and Lofton led with more than 28% of the vote each followed by Mitros with 24.7%. Al-Amin trailed with 18.7% of the vote.
Ford Heights fielded one of the region’s most contested elections as six ran for three seats. Incumbent Johnny Griffin led with 21.7% of the vote along with challengers Jimmy Viverette at 20.4% and Elliott Harper at 19.6%. Incumbent James L. Morgan garnered 13.4% of the vote.
Lansing had a contest with four vying for three seats. Incumbents Jerry Zeldenrust and Saad Abbasy of the Village Voice Party led with 26.7% and 27% of the vote, respectively, but Maureen C. Grady-Perovich of the Lansing First Party followed with 24.3%.
Village Voice Party candidate Robert M. Collins trailed with 21.8% of the vote.
Incumbent Midlothian Village Board members Sandra Crowley, Anthony Burbatt and Don Killelea each had more than 25% of the vote. They were challenged by Sandra L. Cortez, who had 16%.
Oak Forest Ward 7 Ald. Denise Danihel had a nine-vote lead over challenger Kimberly Ann Duffy in a close contest.
Five vied for three seats on the Riverdale Village Board as incumbent Democrats Brenda Williams, Cassandra Riley-Pinkney and Erik LeVere each garnered more than 21% of the vote. Independent challangers Rasheena Thomas and Jermaine Allen trailed with just more than 13% of the vote each.
Four ran for three seats on the Robbins Village Board, with incumbents Ernest Maxey and David Dyson apparently winning reelection along with Thomas Harper, who led the polling with 27.9% of the vote. Challenger Marshell “Lil Mama” Freeman garnered 19.9% of the vote.
The race for four seats on the Steger Village Board remained close Wednesday with incumbent William Joyce running as an independent while incumbents Tim Perchinski and Gerald Stewart ran on a Together For Progress ticket with newcomer Brittany Stone. All four candidates were within 33 votes of each other, with unofficial preliminary results showing Stone just eight votes behind Stewart and nine votes behind Joyce, with late mail-in ballots yet to be counted.
Five ran for three seats on the Thornton Village Board, with incumbents Gina Glaser and Rosemary Cunningham leading with more than 22% of the vote, followed by Ernest “Bo” Kaye with 19%, but only vote ahead of Martin Pratscher. Debra Lamoureux trailed but by just a dozen votes.
Four ran for three seats on the University Park Village Board. Jewell Thompson led with 31% of the vote, followed by Gina Williams with 28.5% and Donna “Dilworth” Fulcher with 21%. Incumbent Shirley Bolding had 19.7% of the vote, 30 votes behind Fulcher.