2025 Candidates Survey

Survey results and BWOP’s rankings.

Bike Walk Oak Park conducted a survey of the two candidates for Village President and five candidates for Village Trustee. Survey questions addressed the candidates’ mobility choices, current bike/walk infrastructure and potential improvements, Vision Zero, and the updated Bike Plan.

Our analysis of candidates were based not only on survey responses but also on incumbents’ history of support of active transportation issues, conversations with candidates, and public candidate forums.

Bike Walk Oak Park does not endorse candidates, but we rank each candidate according to their level of knowledge and support for biking/pedestrian/transit issues. We were pleased to see that the majority of candidates are supportive of these issues with no candidates demonstrating negative views or statements. We encourage you to read through the surveys themselves (linked below) to help guide your decisions on Oak Park’s 2025 municipal election. 

Election day is April 1st and early voting begins March 17th!

Highly supportive: Showed excellent understanding of key issues or willingness to learn about them. Welcomed input from citizens as well as internal and external experts. Displayed creative thinking in analyzing and solving problems. Provided tangible and specific solutions to infrastructure and funding questions. 

Village President: Vicki Scaman

Village Trustee: Chibuike Enyia, Jenna Leving Jacobson, Josh Vanderberg

Supportive: Showed good understanding of key issues and willingness to broaden that knowledge. Welcomed input from citizens as well as internal and external experts. Provided semi-specific solutions to infrastructure and funding questions.

Village Trustee: Lucia Robinson, Jim Taglia

No information/non-responsive:

Village President: Ravi Parakkat