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Election results for Blue Islands and neighboring towns
Blue Island voters reelect no officials and reject annexation to Chicago by about six to one. Chicago Heights reelects mayor and officials while heavy police and fire civil service voting passed. Harvey approves a wheel tax and rejects a $17,000 electric plant bond. Thornton, West Hammond and Glenwood also report mayoral and trustee outcomes.
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Blue Islands
Jeremiah Jones
Fred Hohman
Edward N. Stein
Judd Ho Mathews
Alfred Koenecke
Ernest Kott
Louis Grosskopf
Tie
John W. Wulff
James A. Noble
Henry Grosskopf
Chicago
Chicago Heigiles
Craig Hood
W. Leonard
O. Ritter
Philip Pfeil
Earl Smith
Glenwood
Fred E. Wolff
Richard Heminewar
Herman Krance
William Krause
Richard Tomke
Harvey
George H. Gibson
H W. Carpenter
Walter Haines
A G. Foster
George A. Mahan
Thornton
F. S. Flanagan
John Paulson
Wiliam Blank
Albert Mandelkow
George Ellis
West Hammond
Paul M. Kamradt
Andrew J. Stachowicz
August Zimmerman