SPRINGFIELD â Springfield attorney and businessman Don Tracy, the former head of the Illinois Gaming Board, was elected chairman of the Illinois Republican Party on Saturday.
Tracy, 70, will fill out the remaining two years of Tim Schneider s four-year term. The 65-year-old Schneider of Bartlett had been chairman since 2014, taking over for Jack Dorgan.
Tracy beat out Mark Shaw, the Lake County Republican Party chairman and president of the Republican County Chairmen s Association of Illinois, and Kendall County Board Chairman Scott Gryder.
Tracy becomes the first chairman from downstate since Donald Doc Adams of Springfield. The former chairman of the Illinois Liquor Control Commission who also served on the State Board of Elections, Adams tenure as GOP head lasted from 1973 to 1988.
A Springfield lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for an Illinois Senate seat in 2002 as a Democrat and later lost his bid to become the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in
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By Grace Barbic & Capitol News Illinois
• Jan 27, 2021
Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago, takes questions on the floor of the Bank of Springfield Center where the Illinois House hosted its lame duck legislative session from Jan. 8-13. Harper was the sponsor of several economic equity measures backed by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus.
Credit Justin Fowler, State Journal-Register
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing “Lame Duck Look Back” series in which Capitol News Illinois is following up on the major bills that passed both chambers of the General Assembly in the Jan. 8-13 lame duck session.
SPRINGFIELD – Among the many measures passed in the lame duck legislative session earlier this month was a bill preventing employers from discriminating against people with criminal conviction histories.