Don Perille Steps Down After 52 Years of Serving the Village of Skokie
The Skokie Trustee will step down from his seat in the village hall council chambers on April 22.
Skokie resident Don Perille has served the village for a record 52 years in some capacity or other, either at the village’s Plan Commission or as a village trustee. On April 22, however, the Skokie trustee will be stepping down from his seat in the village hall council chambers.
Perille, 84, who has been part of village government since John Kennedy was in the White House, decided to move on and make way for new trustees.
Perille, moved to Skokie in 1959. Two years later he started a 28-year run on the Planning Commission before moving to the village board in 1989. He conceded he considered stepping down before the last election but decided to serve one last term and has now decided it is the right time to retire.
Incumbents Michele Bromberg, Randy Roberts and Edie Sue Sutker have been slated once again by the Caucus Party along with Karen Gray-Keeler, Ilonka Ulrich and Ralph Klein to fill the three seats that have been vacated. Skokie Voice founder Lisa Lipin is mounting an Independent candidacy for trustee as well as Independent Brian Novak.
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Frank
8:16 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
As with our Congressmen and Senators...we need term limits on these jobs at village hall. Thanks for your service Mr. Perille...and thanks for opening a seat for a non Caucus candidate.
Don Gelfund
9:42 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Don Perille has been a tremendous asset to Skokie's board. Who says he's opening a seat for a non-Caucus candidate? Election is in 19 days.
Carol S. Kohn
9:57 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Best wishes on your retirement, Don! Skokie's government wouldn't be the same without your voice and experience to be heard. I've lived here in Skokie since late August of1967 until June of 1983 when I got married, then returned to live in Skokie in 1990 and have remained a Skokie resident since then; my husband of almost 30 years was living in Evanston before our marriage. We both had been residents of Chicago for some years too as we'd known each other since our sandbox days together in 1950 in East Rogers Park, then lost track of each other until late July or sometime in 1980 when we got back together; following our wedding in 1983, we'd moved back to Chicago with the move out here to Skokie in late May of 1990.