High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert G. Abboud (born 1956) is an Lebanese American politician in Illinois, Village President of four-county Barrington Hills since 2005, and was re-elected on April 7, 2009. Earlier he served as Village Trustee, elected in 2001. Abboud was the Democratic nominee for Illinois`s 16th congressional district (map) of the United States House of Representatives in 2008, losing in the general election to Republican incumbent Donald A. Manzullo.