The filing period for municipal elections ended Dec. 26 for the April 9, 2013 election. Here’s who’s filed.

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Darien City Council

Open Seats: 4 (wards 1, 3, 5 and 7)

Term Length: 4 years

Who's Filed: Ward 1: Ted V. Schauer; Ward 3: Joseph A. Kenny; Ward 5: Joseph A. Marchese (incumbent), Marianne Batryn and  James ‘Jim’ Minardi; Ward 7: Halil Avci (incumbent) and Thomas J. Belczak.

District 86 School Board

Open Seats: 4

Term Length: 4 years

Who's Filed: Victor Casini of Burr Ridge, Claudia Manley of Darien, Dennis Brennan of Hinsdale (incumbent), Deirdre “DeeDee” Gorgol of Willowbrook (incumbent), Kay Gallo of Clarendon Hills (incumbent), Roseanne Rosenthal of Hinsdale, Edward Corcoran of Clarendon Hills and Roger Kempa of Darien. Jennifer Babbington, of Darien, withdrew her petition. 

District 61 School Board

Open Seats: 3

Term Length: 4 years

Who's filed: Melissa Christie, Iranell Spann and Katherine Fujiura. Claudia Manley (incumbent) withdrew her name from the ballot. 

District 63 School Board

Open Seats: 3

Term Length: 4 years

Who's filed: Michael Webster (incumbent), Michael Ockrim and Laura Draper (incumbent).

District 66 School Board

Who's filed: Mark Motuelle (incumbent),  Liane Raso, Tracey Edwards, Glenn Olsen, Steven R. Vena and Michael B. Mandziara.

Indian Prairie Library Board 

Open Seats: 4

Term Length: 4 years

Who's Filed: Luanne Spiros (incumbent) and Paul Oggerino.

Darien Park District

Who's Filed: Incumbents Ray Jablonski and Rob Sarocco. 

Darien-Woodridge Fire District

Who's Filed: Sharon Cattaneo and Robert Klein.