The Republican incumbent for Cook County Board of Commissioners' 17th District seat edged out Democrat opponent Patrick Maher in a campaign rife with allegations and criticism.
Elizabeth Gorman will have her chance to "fight Stroger politics" as she said while greeting voters outside the Orland Park Civic Center on Tuesday night. Gorman won another four-year term as Cook County Board's 17th District commissioner with about 59 percent of votes, against Democrat challenger Patrick Maher who received 36 percent of the votes. Green Party candidate Matthew Ogean pulled just more than five percent of votes in the race. At the victory party at Sam Maguire's Pub after most of the numbers had come in, the incumbent said she was proud of running a clean campaign and criticized Maher for neglecting the real problems with Cook County government. "He blamed me for his inability to tell the truth," said Gorman, noting that…
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Will County Sheriff Paul Kaupas won the race in the last four precincts reported.
Will County Sheriff Paul Kaupas' election party was tense as results rolled in Tuesday night, but elation ultimately ensued as he was re-elected in a very close victory over Deputy Pete Piazza. After swapping leads of mere percentage points for most of the night, Kaupas, a Republican from Mokena, eventually overtook the Democrat with the final four precincts, finishing with 50.7 percent of the vote. "The race was much closer than I expected," said Jim Stellwagen, a New Lenox resident and campaign chairman for Kaupas. "But he's got great integrity and I like the no-nonsense way of conducting the department." Results were perhaps a bit closer because of various high-profile incidents in which people were wrongfully arrested, which Piazza put…
