John Edgar “Jack” Seitz served as Des Plaines alderman for 14 years before serving as mayor in the 1980s.
John Edgar “Jack” Seitz was mayor of Des Plaines for eight years in the 1980s and before that had served for 14 years as an alderman in the northwest suburb.
After his active duty concluded, Seitz returned to the Chicago area and began working for the National Safety Council in 1955 as a statistician. The next year, he shifted gears to work for Continental Casualty Co. as a copywriter and account supervisor, and then in 1958 he joined Chicago-based Encyclopaedia Britannica as a contest and awards manager.
Seitz and his wife, Marilyn, settled on living in Des Plaines after a friend from his Marine Corps Reserve unit had purchased a new house there. They liked the area so much that they bought the lot next door and built their own home in 1962, he told the Tribune in 1986.Seitz soon became involved in a civic group that was fighting a local rezoning proposal before the Des Plaines City Council. That led to a role as a GOP precinct captain, and then in 1967, Seitz ran for and won a seat as alderman.
“One of my continuing goals in this office is to improve the efficiency of government,” he told the Tribune. “I know that’s a general statement, but there always are little things you can find to make it run better.” “I’m tired of the attitude that we’re a ‘suburb’ of Chicago,” he told the Tribune in 1986. “We don’t have to depend on someone else to keep going.”Seitz and the village administration also dealt with two major floods that caused problems in Des Plaines in 1986 and 1987. In addition, he served as president of the Northwest Municipal Conference, a consortium of northwest suburbs, from 1988 until 1989.
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