Conclusion
Once incorporation was approved by
the vote and the first village officials were elected there had been a lot of
material published in the newspapers about the problems that lay ahead for
Lisle. At the second meeting of the village board, the village president,
Thomas J. Malloy analyzed the village’s future and outlined their problems. The
village still needed to address zoning and planning, sanitation and other
concerns, but this would come with time. Lisle had the infrastructure in place
so that it could function independently from the county. Within a month of the
elections they were well under way to creating a police department and many other
regulations for business in the village. Despite the fears of the community,
the Village of Lisle was off to a stable start. This example of suburban
government can be viewed as a grassroots organization that exists because the
people created it and ran it. Lisle defied all odds and became a village after
a nearly twenty year struggle.