Prospect Heights City Administrator Peter Falcone

Thanks to recently retired city administrator Joe Wade, Prospect Heights didn’t need to look far for his successor.

Wade’s assistant, Peter Falcone, has been named the new city administrator after serving as a member of the professional team assembled a decade ago.

“The city was going through a transformation,” Falcone said. “I will 100% credit Joe Wade. The mayor called Joe ‘the guru.’ I’m proud to say I served at the feet of the guru.”

Unlike his mentor’s 42 years in municipal government, Falcone said his own 18 have been his professional “second act.” While pursuing a master’s degree in his 30s, he undertook an internship in 2007 in Morton Grove where Wade was village administrator.

Falcone continued to work in Morton Grove, even wh

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