Lyle Hopkins
Republican · IL · Ogle County Board Member, District 8
Lyle Hopkins, of Polo, is a sitting Ogle County Board member who chairs its Road and Bridge and Agriculture committees. He is also Pine Creek Township supervisor and in 2018 pushed the board to settle its solar-farm rules.
Where Lyle Hopkins stands, based on their records
Mixed record
Government Spending Reduction (1 support · 3 oppose), Public Infrastructure (4 support · 3 oppose)
Track record
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 support · 3 oppose
Voted for Ogle County's 2018 budget of $34,348,418 and its $12,662,330 property tax levy. It passed 20-1.
November 21, 2017Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for an ordinance letting Ogle County sell bonds to pay for building a new county jail. It passed 19-2.
September 19, 2017Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against a $1,108,000 construction contract for the county's new Emergency Operations Center in Rochelle. It passed 15-7.
March 21, 2017Supports Government Spending Reduction
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Voted no on cutting the meeting pay of county Regional Planning Commission members as a budget saving. He said members should be paid for meetings. The cut failed 8-15.
November 17, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 4 support · 3 oppose
Voted against a permit for a 3.5-megawatt community solar farm in Leaf River Township. It passed 11-10.
October 21, 2025Opposes Public Infrastructure
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Voted against a permit for a 2-megawatt community solar farm in Mount Morris Township. The board denied it 17-4.
June 17, 2025Opposes Public Infrastructure
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Voted against a solar farm permit near Haldane after the developer sued the county. He said the project took good farmland out of production. It passed 13-11.
December 17, 2024Opposes Public Infrastructure
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Voted against extending the county's pause on solar farm permits to March 31, 2020. He said it had dragged on long enough with no progress. It passed 13-7.
December 17, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
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Moved to end the county's pause on solar farm permits. He then voted against denying three solar farm permits, two of them in Marion Township. The board denied all three.
January 10, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
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Moved to delay a countywide pause on new solar farm permits so a committee could discuss it first. That failed, and he cast the only no vote as the pause passed 21-1.
August 21, 2018Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted for an ordinance letting Ogle County sell bonds to pay for building a new county jail. It passed 19-2.
September 19, 2017Supports Public Infrastructure
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Track record — General
General · 9 records
Served as chairman of the Ogle County Board's Road and Bridge Committee and its Agriculture Committee for the 2025-2027 board term.
January 9, 2026
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Voted against a county ordinance setting rules for where large battery energy storage systems may be built. It passed 15-7.
December 16, 2025
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Spoke for a county resolution opposing state bills to merge or eliminate townships and their road districts. He said townships are more efficient. The board passed it unanimously.
March 18, 2025
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Voted against replacing Ogle County's rules for where wind farms and solar farms may be built. The wind rules passed 21-2 and the solar rules passed 19-5.
December 19, 2023
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Voted against a new county board pay plan that set salaries for the board chair and paid members $70 per meeting attended. It passed 16-3.
November 16, 2021
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Voted for an ordinance banning recreational cannabis businesses in unincorporated Ogle County. It passed 18-2.
December 17, 2019
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Seconded and voted for a county resolution opposing new state limits on Second Amendment gun rights. It passed 23-1.
February 19, 2019
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Urged the board to vote on new solar farm rules instead of waiting, saying they were only advice for the zoning board. He voted against tabling them, but the board tabled the rules 22-2.
December 18, 2018
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Voted to hold a special board meeting on three proposals: putting the new county jail on the November 2016 ballot, limiting the board chairman's pay, and backing landowners against the Great Lakes Basin Rail Line. The motion failed 7-15.
August 16, 2016
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Past race Lyle Hopkins ran in:
- Ogle County Board Member - District 8 (2-Year Term) · November 3, 2026 · Ogle County, Illinois · incumbent