Editing Kane County, Illinois (section)

== Government ==

=== Kane County Board ===
Kane County services are overseen by a 24 member Board which is elected every two years. The Board's chair is elected every four years. The Board sets the County's budget. Corrine Michelle Pierog is the current County Board Chair. There are currently 16 [[Democratic Party of Illinois|Democrats]] and 8 [[Illinois Republican Party|Republicans]] on the Board.

In addition to the Board chair, there are nine county officeholders elected countywide every four years. These positions are the Auditor, Circuit Clerk, County Clerk, Coroner, Recorder, Regional Office of Education Superintendent, Sheriff, State's Attorney, and Treasurer.

=== Current elected officials ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Kane County Board Members, 2022-2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pages - Board Members |url=https://www.countyofkane.org/pages/countyboard/boardMembers.aspx |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=www.countyofkane.org}}</ref>
!Party
!District
!Board Member
!City/town
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|''Chair''
|Corinne Pierog
|Batavia
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|1
|Myrna Molina
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|2
|Dale Berman
|North Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|3
|Anita Lewis
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|4
|Mavis Bates
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|5
|Bill Lenert
|Sugar Grove
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|6
|Ron Ford
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|7
|Monica Silva
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|8
|Michelle Gumz
|Aurora
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|9
|Gary Daughtery
|Gilberts
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|10
|Bill Tarver
|Batavia
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|11
|Leslie Juby
|Geneva
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|12
|Bill Roth
|St. Charles
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|13
|Michael Linder
|St. Charles
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|14
|Mark Davoust
|St. Charles
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|15
|David Young
|Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|16
|Michael Kenyon
|South Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|17
|Deborah Allan
|Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|18
|Rick Williams
|Geneva
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|19
|Mohammad "Mo" Iqbal
|Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|20
|Cherryl Fritz Strathmann
|Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|21
|Clifford Surges
|Gilberts
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|22
|Verner (Vern) Tepe
|Elgin
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|23
|Chris Kious
|Algonquin
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|24
|Jarett Sanchez
|Carpentersville
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Countywide Officeholders, 2022-2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=2020 General Election Contest Results - Kane County Elections |url=https://electionresults.kanecountyil.gov/Contests.aspx?Id=23 |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=electionresults.kanecountyil.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2022 General Election Contest Results - Kane County Elections |url=https://electionresults.kanecountyil.gov/Contests.aspx?Id=27 |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=electionresults.kanecountyil.gov}}</ref>
!Party
!Office
!Name
!Party
!Serving Until
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|Kane County Clerk
|John "Jack" A. Cunningham
|Republican
|2026

|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|Sheriff
|Ron Hain
|Democratic
|2026
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|Treasurer
|[[Chris Lauzen]]
|Republican
|2026
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|Board Chair
|Corinne M. Pierog
|Democratic
|2024
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|Circuit Clerk
|Theresa Barreiro
|Democratic
|2024
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|Auditor
|Penny Wegman
|Democratic
|2024
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|Coroner
|L. Robert Russell
|Republican
|2024
|-
|{{party color cell|Illinois Republican Party}}
|Recorder
|Sandy Wegman
|Republican
|2024
|-
|{{party color cell|Democratic Party of Illinois}}
|State's Attorney
|Jamie Mosser
|Democratic
|2024
|}

=== 16th Circuit ===
Kane County is coterminous with the [[Illinois circuit courts|16th Judicial Circuit]]. The 16th Judicial Circuit is divided into four subcircuits. The first subcircuit consists of the majority of [[Aurora Township, Kane County, Illinois|Aurora Township]]. The second subcircuit consists of most of [[Elgin Township, Kane County, Illinois|Elgin]] and [[Dundee Township, Kane County, Illinois|Dundee]] townships. The fourth subcircuit consists the [[Tri-Cities, Illinois|tri-cities]] area of [[Batavia, Illinois|Batavia]], [[Geneva, Illinois|Geneva]], and [[Saint Charles, Illinois|Saint Charles]]. The third subcircuit consists of all territory not included in the other three subcircuits, which corresponds to an area of roughly the western two thirds of the county.<ref>{{cite web |author=Kane County Clerk |date=April 22, 2022 |title=Judicial Subcircuts Created by P.A. 97-0585 |url=https://archive.org/details/il-circuit-16-kane-county-subcircuits |access-date=April 22, 2022}}</ref>