Tom Weisner
| Tom Weisner | |
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| Mayor of Aurora, Illinois | |
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In office April 26, 2005 – November 1, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | David Stover |
| Succeeded by | Bob O'Connor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1949 (age 67–68) Batavia, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marilyn (m. 1972) |
| Children | Thaddeus (d. 2006), Anthony |
| Residence | Aurora, Illinois |
| Alma mater | Aurora University |
| Occupation | Civil Service |
Tom Weisner (born c. 1949) is an American politician. He is the mayor of Aurora, Illinois, which is the second largest municipality in the state. He won re-election on April 9, 2013. Prior to his election he worked for over eighteen years in high-ranking positions in the city of Aurora and for five years as a volunteer in the Peace Corps.
He has been involved in several interstate new stories. In 2007, he was embroiled in an interstate advertising controversy when the Governor of Kentucky used video footage of the local casino taken on a visit to Aurora for his re-election campaign, which included a platform against gambling. In 2008, his city-wide wifi installation initiative was halted due to change in business strategy by the installing company. His decision-making skills again made headlines outside of Illinois when a Planned Parenthood clinic's permits became an issue.
Weisner is a native of Batavia, Illinois, but moved to Aurora thirty years before becoming a political candidate. Weisner has been married to Marilyn Hogan Weisner sine 1972. The Weisners raised two sons; Thaddeus, who died in 2006, and Anthony. Weisner earned his bachelor's degree from Aurora University in organizational management.
Prior to becoming an Aurora city employee in 1986, Weisner worked in the private sector and spent five years in the Solomon Islands, where he gave medical services and other assistance to natives with the Peace Corps and International Human Assistance Program. He and his wife were stationed in rain forests on the Island of Guadalcanal.
Weisner had held several department head positions in Aurora since beginning his first position as emergency service coordinator in January 1986. By fall 1987, Weisner had become the superintendent of the Aurora Department of Motor Vehicles. He later served as the director of equipment services for Aurora and was subsequently appointed Aurora's director of public property in a 1991 city hall reorganization. In 1999, he was appointed Aurora's director of community services and organizational development, which was his last position before running for public office. He resigned from this position in February 2004 during the city's water contamination crisis. The city's residents were under a boil water order at the time of his resignation. The order to boil drinking water contaminated with E. coli bacteria lasted for ten days.
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