Don Tracy, chair of the Illinois Republican Party from 2021 to 2024, said he's taking "a hard look" at seeking the GOP ...

“We’ve got to embrace early voting and voting by mail,” Tracy said at the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee & County Chairmen’s Association breakfast in August.

Salvi, who officially becomes the face of the state party on Friday, called on Illinois Republicans to set aside differences "to usher in a new era of Republican victories here in Illinois.” ...

UPDATED: April 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM CDT Two days before Tuesday’s local elections, the Illinois Republican Party sent out an email to supporters declaring it to be “a do or die moment for us.” ...

Three years ago, the Cook County Republican Party, represented by a legal group founded by and associated with the right-leaning Illinois Policy Institute, went to federal court in an unsuccessful ...

In local elections Tuesday, 79 percent of the candidates backed by the Illinois Democratic Party won. Several Republican mayors were unseated, pointing to problems for the GOP in the suburbs.

Just in time for election season, the Illinois Republican Party is showing signs of life. A fundraiser set for next month not only is a sellout, with 740 tickets purchased for the Feb. 9 dinner at ...

Bruce Rauner moved to Florida The ex-governor donated $36.8 million to the Illinois Republican Party between 2014 and 2018. Then he lost the governorship, left the state, and stopped writing checks.

With fissures dividing the national Republican Party as it searches for direction and a message after the presidency of Donald Trump, the Illinois GOP is waging its own, lower profile quest for ...

Republicans, Illinois, they felt as if they were kind of shielded from what was going on in the larger context of the GOP in Washington and in other parts of the country.

Illinois is a disaster and I hope to help save it. After the surprise resignation of Tim Schneider as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, the opportunity to help lead Republicans in ...

The new Illinois Republican Party chairman, Don Tracy of Springfield, has a big job in front of him. Before the Illinois GOP can start winning statewide elections again, he's got to pull the ...