From McHenry County Board Chairman Mike Buehler:

Chairman Buehler Nominates John Collins to Fill McHenry County Board Vacancy

WOODSTOCK, Ill. – McHenry County Board Chairman Michael Buehler has nominated John Collins to fill the vacancy left in County Board District 2 by State Representative Suzanne Ness.

Collins, of Crystal Lake, is owner and president of Omni Supply, an Elgin company that builds environmentally responsible systems to manage fats, oil and grease for the commercial food industry.

He was nominated from a field of six applicants.

“John Collins has a lifetime of experience as a successful businessman and innovator,” Buehler, R-Crystal Lake, said.

“His knowledge will prove invaluable as we work recover from, and grow our economy beyond, the damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Prior to his ownership of Omni Supply, Collins owned JWC Services, a Crystal Lake commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning company that he sold in 2016 to Gurnee-based Averus.

He also served as the vice president of development for Delux Cleaning Supply in Fort Worth; general manager of Facilitec/Ecolab, which has offices in Elgin, Gurnee and St. Paul; and prior to that, worked for Universal Standard HealthCare and Mobil Oil. Collins has a bachelor of arts degree in business management from North Central College, in Naperville.

The County Board will vote on Collins’s appointment at its voting meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 16.

The meeting can be watched on the Meeting Portal on the county website at www.mchenrycountyil.gov.

Ness, who was elected to the County Board in 2018, resigned Jan. 8 following her election to represent the 66th House District of the Illinois General Assembly.

District 2 covers northwestern Algonquin Township and far northeastern Grafton Township, including portions of Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills and Lakewood.