Bill Nienburg, former Downers Grove Library Board member | Linkedin
Bill Nienburg, former Downers Grove Library Board member | Linkedin
Bill Nienburg, a former Downers Grove library board trustee who was removed by village council vote, said his removal was the “culmination of a two year long effort to exact revenge” for his opposition to having a Drag Queen Bingo event at the Downers Grove Public Library.
“Leslie and many of the others are still grinding an axe from the Drag Queen Bingo event from two years ago, and this was the culmination of a two year long effort to exact revenge for my stance against that event,” said Nienburg on a recent edition of the Chicago Morning Answer show. “It’s a completely inappropriate event for a public library.”
“It doesn’t afford the dignity that the LGBTQ community deserves,” Nienburg said. “It is not the best representation of the LGBT community. If they wanted to celebrate Coming Out day and help teens that are going through a period of life where they are coming to grips with their identity, there are much better ways to do that than trodding a sexualized drag queen event into a public library.”
Bill Nienburg was removed from his position as a library board trustee by a Downers Grove Village Council vote that resulted in a 4-3 majority against him. Nienburg joined the library board in 2022 and was known for his close monitoring and critiques of how taxpayer money was being spent.
Council members Gregory Hose, Mike Davenport, Leslie Sadowski-Fugitt and Christopher Gilmartin voted to remove Nienburg, while Martin Tully, Danny Glover and Mayor Robert Barnett were against the removal.
Dan Proft is the host of “Chicago’s Morning Answer” weekday mornings from 5-9 a.m. on AM 560 Chicago. A former Republican candidate for Illinois Governor, Proft attended Northwestern University and received his J.D. from Loyola University-Chicago.
The show is available on Youtube.
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