Former Union Leader Will Challenge Tinley Park Mayor In April

TINLEY PARK, IL — Tinley Park Mayor Michael Glotz will have a challenger in the April 1, 2025 consolidated election.

First elected as mayor in 2021, Glotz tops the ticket for One Tinley Park, along with Village Clerk Nancy O'Connor and trustees William Brady, Dennis Mahoney and Colleen Sullivan. Glotz, a member of Operating Engineers Local 150, previously served as trustee, as well as chairing the Public Works and Community Development committee.

Mayoral challenger and former union president Michael Maloney leads the Tinley Together Ticket, sharing the slate with clerk candidate Cynthia “Cindy” O’Boyle and trustee candidates Melissa Sanfilippo, Eric Schmidt and Matthew Walsh. Walsh is the most recent former police chief of Tinley Park; he resigned in Sept. 2023 and went on to become police chief of Indian Head Park.

In late-2023, Maloney was tapped to oversee cleanup of the Tinley Mental Health Center property. Maloney is the former President of Pipefitters Local Union 597. His experience included managing large workforces on multimillion-dollar projects involving highly radioactive components in nuclear power stations across northern Illinois, the park district said. Maloney leads remediation efforts at the property, which the park district purchased in 2023. Sanfilippo sits on Remediate 280, a committee formed by the Tinley Park-Park District to collaboratively oversee the cleanup.

On the One Tinley Park slate, Brady first became trustee in 2017, followed by Mahoney and Sullivan in April 2021. O’Connor was appointed village clerk in January 2022 and elected in April 2023.