Invoking one of the willful-and-wanton exceptions to the immunities provided by the Illinois Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, Mack Industries sued the village of Dolton’s manager, Bert Herzog, for allegedly engineering a campaign of municipal retaliation after Mack hired lawyers to turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute about water bills for single-family homes Mack owned and leased out in the village.Because Mack merely claimed economic loss, an important question for the …