Cicero Town President's Wife Resigns From Town Job In Most Dramatic Manner Possible
By Chuck Sudo in News on Jul 25, 2012 5:20PM
It’s nice to know that the more things change, the more politics in Cicero stays the same. The Sun-Times has a story in today’s paper about Elizabeth Dominick, wife of Town President Larry Dominick, and her resignation from her position as head of the town’s health clinic. The reason Elizabeth Dominick cited for her resignation? The “horrific mental abuse that (she has) had to endure for the past four years as Director.”
The Sun-Times also has a copy of Elizabeth Dominick’s resignation letter, dated July 9. It’s a doozy.
"It is with great Joy [sic] that I have finally made the decision of resigning my position as The Health Director of the Cicero Health Department"I will indeed miss the people that I so fervently worked for in obtaining the services I provided to the community of Cicero.
"I will also miss the individuals I handpicked to assist me with my endeavor with the planning and all the hard work it took to run a state of the art health department.
"My only regret is that I failed in leading more people to Christ.
"My hope and my prayers as God would have me do are to remain faithful knowing that he has a better plan for me."
Rumor surrounding Elizabeth Dominick’s job status have circulated since April 2011, when she first tendered her resignation citing low pay. At the time she said her husband would look bad if he gave her a raise. In an interview earlier this week Elizabeth Dominick elaborated on the dysfunction of running Cicero’s health department, and town government in general. “I hate it here,” she said. “I hate everything about Town Hall. There are a lot of good workers, but not in the upper echelon.” She estimated that 50 percent of town workers, many members of her husband’s family, don’t keep regular work hours, and that a lot of town employees don’t like her because she actually does what she’s paid to do.
Cicero town spokesman Ray Hanania told the Sun-Times this is the latest in what he called the paper’s “smear campaign” against Cicero and Larry Dominick.
“Elizabeth Dominick was an excellent department head and she helped expand and improve health services to families, youth and seniors while she was there. For the Chicago Sun-Times to once again turn a story into a political attack against President Dominick is not journalism, but rather, cheap politics.”