Will County Board races: Brooks, Bullock among leaders in unofficial vote totals

With 100% of the votes counted in Will County, the unofficial totals show Democrats appearing to win contested County Board races.

Herbert Brooks Jr. appears headed back to the Will County Board, and he could be joined by teachers union leader Dawn Bullock and Naperville Democrat Kelly Hickey based on unofficial vote counts Tuesday.

Voters picked two candidates in each of three County Board districts.

In District 6, which includes much of Joliet, Brooks was running second with 30% of the vote in a three-candidate race. He had 6,012 votes. Brooks had been a County Board member for 14 years before being thrown off the ballot in 2022 in a petition challenge.

Incumbent County Board member Denise Winfrey was the top vote-getter in District 6, with 46% of the vote and a total of 9,229 votes.

Republican Enrique Ruiz had 4,637 votes for 23% of the vote in District 6.

In District 7, which includes the west side of Joliet and Plainfield, Bullock was the top vote-getter with all precincts counted. Bullock had 12,670 votes, or 29%. Bullock, a Democrat, is a teacher in Plainfield School District 202, where she also heads the teachers union.

District 7 incumbent Will County Board member Vince Logan, R-Joliet, was in second place with 10,350 votes, or 24%, which would return him to office.

Democrat David Lozano was close behind Logan with 9,719 votes, or 22%. Elizabeth “Betsy” Naglich, a Republican, had 9,682 votes, or 22%.

In District 10, which is in a northwestern corner of the county that includes Naperville and Aurora, Kelly Hickey, a Democrat from Naperville, was the leading vote-getter with 15,408 votes, or 37%. She would be new to the County Board and currently is a township trustee in Wheatland Township.

Incumbent Julie Berkowicz, R-Naperville, would hold on to her board seat with 14,125 votes, or 34%. Incumbent Meta Mueller, D-Aurora, could lose her seat, as she was trailing in third place with 11,919 votes, or 28%.