The La Salle County and Bureau County clerk’s offices announced the following petitions were filed for school board in the April 2021 elections.

High schools, () - number of open seats, * - denotes incumbent

• LaSalle-Peru (4): *Matthew Merboth, *Rose Lynch, *Carol Alcorn, Gary Ferrari. Alan Cherpeske did not file for reelection.

• Mendota (4): *James Strouss, *Jim Sundberg, *Jim Lauer, *Aaron Elston.

• Ottawa (4): *Karen Fisher, *George Shanley, *Don Harris, Laurence Bartman, Angel Patterson. Gene Duffy didn’t file for reelection.

• Princeton: *Colleen Sailer, *John Young.

• Seneca (4): *Tiffany Biros, *Jason Eltrevoog, *Joseph Johnson, *Cory Yandell.

• Streator (3): *James Parr, *Richard Tutoky, Gary Wargo, Heather Baker. Nick McFadden didn’t file for reelection.

• Spring Valley Hall (3): *John Picatto

Unit School Districts

• Earlville: *John Eager, Gregg Pfaff, *Carl Zimmerman, *Jeffrey Maly

• Leland: *Tage Shumway, *Daniel Todd, *Janet Plote.

• Lostant: *Robert Lawless, Shayla Chambers, Nicole Kozak, *Kelly Wiesbrock, *Gregory Walder.

• Unit 2 (Serena) (4): *Susan McNelis, Ladonna Gale, *Daniel McNally, *Stephanie Thompson. Renee Thompson didn’t run for reelection.

Elementary schools () - number of open seats, * - denotes incumbent

• Dalzell: *Luke Simpson

• Deer Park: Glenn Weatherford, Christ Thomas, Matthew Znaniecki, *Jennifer Leifheit

• DePue: *Jason Hayes, *Marisela Cervantes

• Dimmick: *Laurie Ernat, *Sidney Haas, Debra Herz, Heather Seghi, *Debora Black.

• Grand Ridge: Kate Jaegle, Kayla Simons, John Lubelski, *Richard Frye. *Michael Wielgopolan for an unexpired two-year term.

• La Salle (3): *Hank Senica, *Nikki Baer, *Kelly Rolando-Spangler.

• Ladd: *Jane Picatto, *Paul Quinn, Peter Gambiani, Jessica Grubar, *Nathan Fiocchi

• Marseilles (4): *Bobby Kaminski, *Bradley Miller, *Christy Carpenter, *Julie Morey.

• Mendota (4): *Tim Pohl, *Sean Pappas, Amanda Coss, *Joel Johnson, Elizabeth Zinke. Angel Eisenberg didn’t file for re-election for a two-year term. Holli Rapp filed for that seat.

• Milton Pope (4): David Timmons, *Daniel Mitchell, Russell Witte, Jacob Chapman. Terry Griffin, Mark Long and Dolph Robson didn’t file for reelection.

• Peru Elementary (4): *Dr. Chithambarathanu Pillai, *Patricia Leynaud, *Josanne Bruins. Mark Lamboley didn’t file for reelection. No one filed for the open unexpired two-year term.

• Princeton: *Elizabeth Arkels, Blake Jacobs, *Judson Lusher, Catherine Dye.

• Oglesby (4): Michael Porter, *Marc Strand, *Douglas Kramarsic, *James Knoblauch. Bob Etzenbach didn’t file for reelection.

• Ottawa (4): *Maribeth Manigold, *Mark Fisher.

• Ransom (Allen-Otter Creek): John W. Kling and *Meghan McCoy for two-year unexpired seat.

• Rutland (4): *Brittany Edgcomb, *Amy Jimenez, *Megan Maynard, Krystal Johnson. Rod Brady didn’t file for reelection.

• Seneca: *Kenneth Sangston, *Nicholas Mancuso, Jeff Brockman, Andy Applebee.

• Spring Valley (4): *James Faletti, *Ted Urbanski, *Lindsay Ferrari. Ray Nolasco didn’t file for reelection.

• Streator (5): *Linda Volkman, *Barbara Ehling, Angela Risley, *Edward Levy. Kelli Bacon and Tony Brown didn’t file for reelection.

• Tonica (4): *CiCi Chalus, Todd Trumpinski, *Jared Olesen, *Ritch Fundell

• Wallace (4): *Bill Keene, Nicholas Thrush, *Douglas Carroll, Mark Platt

• Waltham (4): *James McCabe, *Nicole Mertes, *Jason Depenbrock, Allison Nichols, Brian Phillips. Buffy Hoskins is not running again.