Share online
Use the story form below. Anonymous submissions are welcome.
Tell Allaina
Your experience is local expertise.
No one understands a block, a commute, a school pickup, a business corridor, or a Village service better than the people who live with it.
Four ways to be heard
Choose the format that works for you. Support for the campaign is never required.
Talk by phone
Request a call through the form. A campaign phone number will also be posted before launch.
Meet in person
Choose an accessible listening hour, coffee, park pop-up, laundromat conversation, or neighborhood event.
Invite Allaina
Ask Allaina to visit your block, business, faith community, organization, classroom, or gathering.
The Listening Room
What is one thing you want your next trustee to understand?
Tell me what is working, what is not, what you wish people understood, and what would make it easier for you and your family to live, work, grow, and stay in Bolingbrook.
Your story belongs to you.
You do not need to support, volunteer for, donate to, or vote for Allaina to be heard. We will never sell your information or publish identifying details without the permission you choose.
Ask Allaina
Honest answers, including what is still unknown.
Public answers will use three clear labels so uncertainty is not hidden behind campaign language.
What I know
The facts that can be confirmed now, with sources where possible.
What I need to learn
The missing information, people to consult, or records still needed.
What I can do
The next honest action available to a candidate, resident, or trustee.
Listening standards
What happens afterward matters.
- Acknowledge requested replies within two business days.
- Route urgent safety or service matters promptly.
- Do not promise outcomes outside the campaign's control.
- Ask before publishing identifiable stories.
- Report anonymous themes, follow-through, and listening gaps.
- Support voice, text, phone, in-person, language, and disability access.
- Plan every listening event across the Five Doors of Access.
For emergencies, contact 911. For a mental-health or suicide crisis, call or text 988. The campaign is not an emergency service or government agency.
A place to begin
Not sure what to share?
What gets Bolingbrook right?
What should be protected, celebrated, or expanded?
What makes it harder to stay?
Think about housing, costs, access, transportation, work, or belonging.
Where is the Village not listening?
Whose experience is missing from decisions?
What small change would help?
What would improve daily life on your block?
What is hard to understand?
Which Village service, rule, bill, or process needs clearer information?
What should a trustee experience?
What should every trustee see or do firsthand before voting?