Politics & Government

Shorewood Gets Its Man

Shorewood has a new administrator pending the approval of the village board.

Shorewood has pried loose the city manager from small town Princeton, IL, and lured him over here.

Princeton City Manager Jeff Fiegenschuh was offered the Shorewood village administrator job, Mayor Rick Chapman revealed on Thursday, and likely will get it during Tuesday night's board meeting.

"It just takes the approval of the village board," Chapman said. "I expect that will happen."

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Fiegenschuh has held down the city administrator job in Princeton for about five years, Chapman said.

"He's moving into an area with more potential growth once the economy rights itself," Chapman said of Siegenschuh's move east to .

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Fiegenschuh is leaving a town of about 7,500 in Bureau County to replace former village Administrator Kurt Carroll.

Carroll resigned in April to go work for New Lenox at a heft pay raise. Carroll is reportedly getting paid $153,000.

Feigenschuh's contract calls for him to be paid $112,000, Chapman said.

Feigenschuh is set to start working Nov. 14, pending the approval of the village board, Chapman said, but will be attending meeting in the meantime to get up to speed with the business of Shorewood.

Village leaders retained the Deerfield firm Vorhees Associates LLC to conduct a nationwide search for Carroll's replacement.

Vorhees came up with a pool of 100 applicants. Those 100 were winnowed down to six who were interviewed by the village board in recent weeks.

According to Wikipedia, Princeton is the home to movie actor Richard Widmark, who starred in the hot film Kiss of Death.

A native of Nebraska, Feigenschuh graduated from Wayne State College and earned his master's degree from the University of Nebraska.

"I'm very excited," Feigenschuh said. "When I interviewed I had a great time meeting the mayor and the rest of the village board.

Feigenschuh said he is familiar with Shorewood after having traveled through it numerous times on his way to Chicago.


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