Think You Can Beat Quillman, Clement or Guerrero? Here's Your Chance

Think You Can Beat Quillman, Clement or Guerrero? Here's Your Chance Three at-large seats on Joliet's City Council are up for grabs in the non-partisan elections April 1, also known as April's Fools Day.

JOLIET — Rosemaria DiBenedetto, the city of Joliet's director of media relations, issued a press release this week informing everyone that it's now time to start talking about the city of Joliet's upcoming elections on April 1st.

According to DiBenedetto's announcement:

There will be 3 At-Large City Council Positions that carry 4-year terms on the spring election ballot.

Candidacy petitions must be filed with the Joliet City Clerk's Office at 150 West Jefferson Street, between Tuesday, November 12, and Monday, November 18, during normal business hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Joliet City Clerk's Office will remain open until 5 p.m. on Monday, November 18, to accept petitions for candidacy.

The First Day of Filing is Tuesday, November 12:

All petitions filed by candidates (or their designee) waiting in line at the City Clerk's Office at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, November 12 are considered simultaneously filed.

Last Day of Filing, Monday, November 18:

All petitions filed by candidates (or their designee) after 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday, November 18, 2024, will be considered simultaneously filed.

Any petition filed after 8 a.m. on November 12, and before 4 p.m. on November 18, will be on the ballot in the order it was received.

Joliet Patch Reflects On 2020 Elections

On April 6, 2021, Joliet Patch reported that in Tuesday's non-partisan Joliet City Council elections for three open seats, four-term incumbent Jan Quillman captured the most votes in the crowded 12-candidate race. Coming in second was Joe Clement. For the third at-large seat, 25-year-old Cesar Guerrero was beating long-time Joliet business owner Bob Wunderlich by a total of five votes in Will County, but Wunderlich pulled ahead of Guerrero by a margin of 60 votes in Kendall County, the unofficial vote totals show.

By April 20, 2021, Guerrero's campaign announced that he overcame his election night deficit of 55 votes with a strong showing in mail-in ballots that left him 15 votes ahead of Wunderlich, enough to make him the first Latino in Joliet history to be elected to city-wide office.

On election night, 2021, these were the unofficial vote totals for the 12 people who ran for the three open seats on the Joliet City Council:

Jan Quillman: 3,465 votes

Joe Clement: 3,225 votes

Robert Wunderlich: 2,982 votes

Cesar Guerrero: 2,927 votes

Hudson Hollister: 2,490 votes

Warren Dorris: 2,414 votes

Glenda Wright-McCullum: 1,922 votes

Jeremy Brzycki: 1,216 votes

Roger Powell: 1,079 votes

Nicole Lurry: 1,071 votes

Isiah "Ike" Williams Jr. 1,042 votes

James Lanham: 586 votes

Simultaneous Filing Lottery:

The lottery to determine ballot order of candidates who simultaneously filed petitions to run for the above-mentioned Joliet City Council positions in the 2025 Consolidated Election will take place on Tuesday, November 26 at 8 a.m. in the City Clerk's Office located in the Joliet Municipal Building. 150 W. Jefferson Street.

The lottery is open to the public and candidates are not required to attend. For more information regarding candidacy petition filing, please contact: City Clerk's Office (815) 724-3780 or