{"id":34116,"date":"2026-03-18T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34116\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:59:08","slug":"geneva-59-4m-police-station-referendum-unofficial-results-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/34116\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva $59.4M police station referendum unofficial results \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: For the most updated Election Day results and news coverage, visit our Election Central webpage<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Geneva voters on Tuesday were asked to weigh in on a $59.4 million referendum that, if passed, could pay for a new police station.<\/p>\n

As of 8:22 p.m., early results show so far that 1,993 voters said no on the referendum, compared to 1,245 yes votes. Results won\u2019t be certified until two weeks after the election.<\/p>\n

City officials sought to have an up-to-date facility to meet modern policing standards to be built on property it already owns on South Street next to Public Works, 1800 South St.<\/p>\n

Officials have compared the Geneva station\u2019s proposed price tag to the St. Charles\u2019 police station, which was built for $24,600 before the pandemic and on land that already had underground infrastructure. <\/p>\n

The land the city already owns is leased to the Geneva Park District as ballfields and named Sam Hill Park \u2013 after the late alderman and who was also a supporter of the parks.<\/p>\n

Neighbors to the ballfields objected to losing the park and open space for a police station.<\/p>\n

If approved, officials plan to sell the current location and further reduce the cost of the bond issue.<\/p>\n

As part of its referendum information plan, city officials hosted in-person tours of the current facility, at 20 Police Plaza, to show its inefficiencies, crowded work spaces, paper-thin walls, and damaged areas from broken overhead pipes and sewer backups.<\/p>\n

The current police station was originally built in 1915 as a car dealership. <\/p>\n

Eventually, it also served as the city hall, the former library, fire department and public works. A middle section was added in 1953 and another in the 1980s when the police department was moved to the first floor.<\/p>\n

In addition to in-person tours, officials hosted virtual tours, a podcast, a commercial and other informational sessions with voters.<\/p>\n

Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s note: For the most updated Election Day results and news coverage, visit our Election Central webpage. Geneva…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[14207,65,3733,898,899],"class_list":["post-34116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-2026-election","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-city-council","tag-kane-county","tag-local-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116247708474205721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}