Healy, Cassioppi get GOP bid for DuPage Co. Board

Gerry Cassioppi will join incumbent Jim Healy as the Republican nominees to fill two Naperville seats on the DuPage County Board.

Healy, 50, and Cassioppi, 50, won in a three-way primary against Joe Wozniak, a Naperville real estate consultant.

Healy took the top number of votes at 10,831; Cassioppi with 9,139; and Wozniak at 8,252.

Poised to enter his fourth term on the board, Healy endorsed Cassioppi in January.

"I saw in Gerry someone who could bring an awful lot to the County Board," he said.

Employed as an attorney, Cassioppi has served as vice president of Naperville School District 203 and as a precinct committeeman for the Lisle Township Republican Organization.

If elected in November, Cassioppi will replace board member Bob Schroeder, who has served on the board since 1988 and will retire at the end of this year.

The 18-member board is divided into six districts, each represented by three board members. Naperville and Lisle fall into the 5th District - currently represented by Mike Connelly, along with Healy and Schroeder.

Healy, who serves as transportation spokesman for the National Association of Counties, said he will continue focusing on DuPage's transportation needs if elected to another term.

"I hope that if I win in November, I will be the new chairman of the transportation committee," Healy said. "I'm going to be working very hard at it."

Contact Paige Winfield at pwinfield@scn1.com or 630-416-5275.