The Chicago Tribune headline on the internet was

Challengers for coroner in Lake and McHenry Counties question incumbents’ judgment

Charges fly in Lake, McHenry Counties

As one might expect McHenry County’s Democratic Party challenger Dave Bachmann said

“Republican Marlene Lantz was ‘out of touch’ and should have noticed a suspicious spike in deaths in 2006 at the former Woodstock Residence.”

Incumbent Republican Marlene Lantz replied that it was

“ridiculous to believe she should have noticed the death rate at a nursing home where most of the patients were terminally ill.

“‘No one contacted us to give us a heads-up to say there were any problems,’ she said. ‘If you look at the statistics for any nursing home, they go up and then the deaths go down for many reasons.'”