Updated 4/8/2021 7:43 PM
While winners can confidently be declared in most of the April 6 consolidated election races, the Mettawa mayor contest between incumbent Casey Urlacher and former mayor Jess Ray might not be known until next week.
The reason for the delay? Urlacher is running as a write-in candidate.
Lake County Clerk Robin O Connor said her goal is for write-in ballots to be counted and uploaded to her office s website by Tuesday if not earlier.
Mettawa, a village of about 550 residents, has a history of close contests. Ray, who served as mayor from 2009 to 2013, said Thursday he had to wait 14 days after the 2009 election to find out that he d won by three votes.
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Yet another defendant in the multimillion-dollar sports gambling case that led earlier this year to a pardon of Mettawa Mayor Casey Urlacher by then-President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in federal court.
Matthew Namoff, 25, pleaded guilty to conspiring to conduct an illegal gambling business. In doing so, he became the sixth of 10 original defendants in the case to plead guilty and the fifth since Trump pardoned Urlacher, the brother of Chicago Bears great Brian Urlacher.
Namoff faces a likely sentence of six months to a year in prison at his sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 23.
Chicago Police Officer Nicholas Stella pleaded guilty in the case earlier this week. A police spokesperson said at the time that Stella’s status with the department was “inactive.”
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