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Key Terms Mayor-Person in Charge of a city or town Council-group of local citizens who pass local laws Trustee-local member of a small group of people who help a mayor or town president run the government. Riverdale is a Mayor-Trustee style of government. Commissioner-another word for a trustee Home-rule-in 1970 Illinois made sure to include information in its Constitution about cities and towns having the ability to govern themselves free from state interference. This is a pamphlet distributed from the Village of Riverdale, summer 2019. It gives you a really good idea of what the government does for us. https://villageofriverdale.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SUMMER-2019-NEWSLETER-06-25-19-whole.pdf Click on the video below to see a video of the Village of Dolton’s last village board meeting. Quite boring but worth a quick look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6c4U--zKGE Here are links to both Dolton and Riverdale’s websites: https://vodolton.org/ https://villageofriverdale.net/ Comments are closed.
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