Lake County, IL. (ECWd) –
When reviewing a response to a FOIA request, we found incidences where former Avon Township Supervisor and current Lake County Board Member, Terry Wilke, described people by using terms related to disabilities and otherwise lying about them.
Is this particular email, he responded to an email from Bonnie Kurowski, and used terms like “reputed Klan member” – “kook with developmental disabilities” – and “some sort of bipolar disorder” when lying to Bonnie about people he considered his enemies during the run-up to the April 2021 elections.
He did this while using his government issued email account.
If you had listened to any of the past Avon Township meetings, Wilke is the one with the problems, and it is simply amazing that anyone would ever want him to continue holding a county board seat when he describes people in this fashion.
Let Terry Wilke know what you think of his comments at TWilke@lakecountyil.gov
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2 Comments
PK
Posted at 21:58h, 29 JulySee agenda Item 3 for some good-to-great news from the lake county board chair.
https://lakecounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=828977&GUID=3AC04BDA-96A4-4986-83B1-F5A3CFEF6732
PK
Posted at 16:29h, 12 JuneBecause of ECWd’s lawsuit involving the person Mr. Wilke’s email is addressed to, I’m not comfortable contacting him about his campaigning on his county government issued email address nor addressing the disparaging language he’s using to do so…which, of the two infractions, is much more offensive. Otherwise, I would ask the entire Lake County Board to review Mr. Wilke’s email for language policy violation and to provide him just feedback.
However, Lake County’s website appears to be current, and I have copied information from individual board member contact information here in list form for anyone else’s convenience. Perhaps Mr. Wilke’s email can be bought up for discussion during the next board meeting.
Lake County Board Members
Linda Pedersen (District 1) LPedersen@lakecountyil.gov
Diane Hewitt (District 2) DHewitt@lakecountyil.gov
Dick Barr (District 3) DBarr@lakecountyil.gov
Gina Roberts (District 4) GRoberts@lakecountyil.gov
Vacancy (District 5)
John Wasik (District 6) JWasik@lakecountyil.gov
Carissa Casbon (District 7) CCasbon@lakecountyil.gov
Bill Durkin (District 8) BDurkin@lakecountyil.gov
Mary Ross-Cunningham (District 9) MCunningham@lakecountyil.gov
Jessica Vealitzek (District 10) JVealitzek@lakecountyil.gov
Paul Frank (District 11) PFrank@lakecountyil.gov
Paras Parekh (District 12) PParekh@lakecountyil.gov
Sandy Hart (District 13) smhart@lakecountyil.gov
Angelo D. Kyle (District 14) AKyle@lakecountyil.gov
Jennifer Clark (District 15) JClark@lakecountyil.gov
Terry Wilke (District 16) TWilke@lakecountyil.gov
Michael Danforth (District 17) mdanforth@lakecountyil.gov
Julie Simpson (District 18) JSimpson@lakecountyil.gov
Catherine Sbarra (District 19) CSbarra@lakecountyil.gov
Marah Altenberg (District 20) MAltenberg@lakecountyil.gov
Ann Maine (District 21) AMaine@lakecountyil.gov
LPedersen@lakecountyil.gov
DHewitt@lakecountyil.gov
DBarr@lakecountyil.gov
GRoberts@lakecountyil.gov
Vacancy (District 5)
JWasik@lakecountyil.gov
CCasbon@lakecountyil.gov
BDurkin@lakecountyil.gov
MCunningham@lakecountyil.gov
JVealitzek@lakecountyil.gov
PFrank@lakecountyil.gov
PParekh@lakecountyil.gov
smhart@lakecountyil.gov
AKyle@lakecountyil.gov
JClark@lakecountyil.gov
TWilke@lakecountyil.gov
mdanforth@lakecountyil.gov
JSimpson@lakecountyil.gov
CSbarra@lakecountyil.gov
MAltenberg@lakecountyil.gov
AMaine@lake