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| Name | Peter Breen |
| Address | 517 EAST PRAIRIE AVENUE
Lombard, Illinois 60148, United States |
| Email | info@votebreen.com |
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| Info | After marrying, Peter and his wife Margie moved to Lombard as soon as they could put together a down payment on a home in the Lilac Village. Peter has called DuPage County home for the last 28 years, and he is a product of Naperville public schools, graduating in the top 10 of his class of over 500 students at Naperville North High School. An attorney by training, Peter left a lucrative private law practice in Chicago in 2004 to enter full-time public service. One year later, Peter founded a local not-for-profit, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers who have since served thousands of pregnant women in need and their children in DuPage and Will counties. He spearheaded the Chicagoland Project Gabriel campaign, which distributed tens of thousands of “Pregnant? Need Help?” bumper stickers throughout local churches to reach out to women in difficult and untimely pregnancies. In 2008, Peter joined the Thomas More Society*. During his first five years with the Society, Peter served as Executive Director & Legal Counsel, directing the Society's day-to-day operations. As Executive Director, he grew the Society substantially, setting fundraising records, retiring all of its long-term debt, and helping it to take on numerous lawsuits of national importance.
In 2011, Peter was elected Trustee for the Village of Lombard, and in late 2012, he was chosen by his fellow Village Board members to serve as Acting Village President following the sudden death of President Bill Mueller. One of his first initiatives as a trustee was authoring and securing passage of the strongest municipal transparency policy in the state of Illinois, earning Lombard a rare 100% transparency rating from the Illinois Policy Institute. When he took over as Acting Village President, Peter initiated a line-by-line review of the Village's proposed 2013 annual budget, identifying and cutting over half a million dollars in spending without the loss of Village services. He then ensured that those savings were returned to Lombard taxpayers by permanently eliminating the Village's annual vehicle sticker and fee.
During his first two years as Trustee, Peter served as Chairperson of the Lombard Economic & Community Development Committee. Under Peter's leadership, the Committee took on numerous initiatives to help downtown Lombard and to improve the business climate generally in the village. He sponsored and worked to pass the Lombard "outdoor dining" program, rolling back unnecessary regulations to allow new outdoor dining options in the downtown area. He also started downtown Lombard’s “Outdoor Game Watches,” bringing in hundreds of new patrons to shop at local businesses. In order to encourage lower prices for taxi service and to allow Lombard-based livery businesses to grow, Peter rewrote the Lombard Taxi Ordinance to wipe away outdated regulations and to allow a wider variety of vehicles to residents' transport needs.
In 2009, Peter founded BanRedCams, a grassroots initiative that sought to ban unfair and punitive red light cameras in Lombard and surrounding communities. Lombard removed its cameras shortly thereafter. As a Village Trustee, Peter successfully worked to prevent garnishment of residents' state tax refunds to pay red light camera ticket fees.
Peter earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, completing the program in just 3 years. Peter earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame, which he attended on scholarship. He is a member of Lombard's Father Boecker Council of the Knights of Columbus and is an Eagle Scout. Peter and his wife Margie have been married for 9 years. Peter and Margie attend Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where they have been parishioners for 8 years.
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