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Lincoln Heights candidates debate annexation, housing and broadband at NAACP-hosted forum
Summary
Candidates for Lincoln Heights Village Council outlined competing approaches to annexation risk, housing affordability, government transparency and a stalled community WiFi project during an NAACP-hosted candidate forum, pressing incumbents to explain levy, zoning and broadband progress ahead of the November election.
Lincoln Heights Village candidates appeared before residents at a NAACP-hosted candidate forum to outline competing priorities on land control, housing affordability, public-notice procedures, youth programs and a long-delayed broadband project.
The forum opened with ground rules requiring 90-second answers. In opening statements and subsequent exchanges, incumbents and challengers framed their campaigns around local control and practical steps to protect residents from annexation and rising taxes. "We shut down the gun range" and built "community farms," said Councilman Daniels, citing resident organizing as part of a broader effort to change outside narratives about Lincoln Heights. Daniels also promoted a community land trust as a mechanism to "protect this sheet" of village-owned land while allowing residents to build and accrue home equity.
Incumbent Nona R. Calhoun Mumea, who was appointed to fill a vacant seat in February 2024 and serves as finance committee chair, emphasized fiscal steps taken to stabilize village…
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