(CICERO) The on-again-off-again marriage of the Town of Cicero’s First Couple appears to be off again, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Less than two years after his wife stopped divorce proceedings against him, Cicero Town President Larry Dominick has quietly filed his own divorce petition against his wife, Elizabeth.
The tempestuous relationship between the two first came to light in July 2012 when Elizabeth Dominick quit her town job as the director of the town health clinic — which her husband hired her for — after complaining she was subjected to “horrific mental abuse” after the town did not pay her department bills on time, among other indignities.
“It is with great Joy (sic) that I have finally made the decision of resigning my position as The Health Director of the Cicero Health Department,” Elizabeth Dominick wrote at the start of her resignation letter.
“I can no longer remain at this capacity due to horrific mental abuse that I have had to endure for the past four years as Director,” she continued.
She said her only regret “is that I failed in leading more people to Christ.”
However, she did praise her husband at the time, calling him a “phenomenal mayor.”
Larry Dominick had several family members of his wife on the city payroll at the time.
Things took a turn for the worse when she filed for divorce in November 2012, citing abuse.
After Elizabeth Dominick’s initial divorce filing, Cicero Town spokesman Ray Hanania issued a statement saying; “Larry Dominick has never been abusive to Elizabeth or to anyone else in his life; in fact, the only victim of abuse in his current marriage is Larry Dominick.”
But in March 2013, the future appeared a bit brighter, as Elizabeth Dominick filed a handwritten motion that said: “We have decided to reconcile and go for counceling [sic]. Dismiss case please!”
Larry Dominick filed for his own dissolution of marriage on Oct. 8 earlier this year, court records show.
Neither Larry nor Elizabeth Dominick could be reached for comment Sunday.
In an emailed statement, Hanania said: “The town has no comment on Larry’s personal life.”
Despite quitting her town job, Elizabeth Dominick was still able to collect more than $14,000 in unemployment benefits between August 2013 and February 2014, according to records obtained by the Sun-Times through the Freedom of Information Act.
Typically, people who quit their jobs aren’t eligible for unemployment, but Cicero didn’t challenge the payments because she quit while she was under great stress, Hanania said at the time.
— Chicago Sun-Times
