In Re Petition for Removal of Bower

We have granted leave to appeal the judgment of the Fifth District Appellate Court (91 Ill. App. 2d 63) which affirmed the decree of the circuit court of Richland County upholding the sufficiency of five petitions for recall of the mayor and four commissioners of Olney, Illinois. The appellate court opinion contains the following accurate factual account:

“Section 4 — 7—1, Chapter 24, Illinois Revised Statutes, 1965, relating to the removal of officers in commission form municipalities provides:

‘Every incumbent of an elective office, under this article, except a judicial officer and an officer…