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Democrats took two open state legislative seats in Lake County while Republican senate leader Dan McConchie narrowly won reelection.
The people of Grayslake are gaining a new state representative and losing a village board member after Lauren Faver Dias' election victory Tuesday.
As recently as March, Adam Shores and Laura Faver Dias were colleagues on the Grayslake Village Board. But in November, the duo will face off as voters choose which one will represent the 62nd State House District in Springfield.
Grayslake Trustee Adam Shores, the lone Republican candidate in the race to succeed state Rep. Sam Yingling in the 62nd House District, will resign his village board seat at the end of the month.
Lake County voters will decide few state legislative primaries when they head to the polls in June.