Robert G. Abboud is an Lebanese American

United States

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 politician in Illinois

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, Village President of four-county Barrington Hills

Barrington Hills, Illinois

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 since 2005, and was re-elected on April 7, 2009. Earlier he served as Village Trustee, elected in 2001. Abboud was the Democratic

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 nominee for (map) of the United States House of Representatives

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 in 2008, losing in the general election to Republican

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 incumbent Donald A. Manzullo

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.

Abboud was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Barrington Hills when he was four. He received a Bachelor of Science

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 degree in Nuclear Engineering

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 from Purdue University

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, his Master of Science

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 degree in Nuclear Engineering from Northwestern University

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, and for 20 years he worked for ComEd as a Nuclear Engineer. He is currently President and CEO of RGA Labs, Inc., a home-based engineering firm.

He is the son of A. Robert Abboud, the former chairman of First Chicago Bank

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 that merged with Bank One and ultimately was acquired by Chase Bank.

See also

• United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2008
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  The 2008 congressional elections in Illinois were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives, coinciding with the presidential and senatorial elections...
  
  
• Illinois' 16th congressional district
  Illinois' 16th congressional district
  The 16th Congressional District of Illinois covers a part of northern Illinois, including the cities of Rockford, Crystal Lake, Machesney Park, Belvidere, Freeport and Galena, and all or parts of Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, Carroll, Ogle, DeKalb, and Whiteside counties.For...
  
  

External links

• Bob Abboud for U.S. Congress official campaign website

• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• RGA Labs, Inc.
• Robert Abboud interview from Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz (half hour video from July 27, 2008) podcast
• Nick Vogel, Abboud ready to face challengers' slate Barrington Courier, February 19, 2009