Skokie Mayor Moves To Block Voter-Initiated Referendums From Ballot – Patch Skokie

Facing a citizen-initiated referendum campaign from a group called the Skokie Alliance for Electoral Reform, Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen placed on Monday's village board agenda a trio of resolutions calling for three nonbinding advisory questions to appear on the November ballot. The Alliance's proposals include: staggered elections, a mix of at-large and district-level village trustees and, in perhaps the biggest threat to the Skokie Caucus Party's six-decade rule of the village board, nonpartisan elections.

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