All the village incumbents are unopposed in the April election. The candidate filing period ended more than two weeks ago. All the recent decisions took place after that. If the increase happens, the mayor's pay would be roughly equivalent to the mayor of Rockford, a city that is eight times larger than Bensenville.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.