New Illinois Republican Party Chairman tries to unite fractured Illinois GOP heading into Milwaukee convention – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo News

Kathy Salvi of Mundelein was selected Friday at a virtual meeting of the 17-member Illinois Republican State Central Committee. Salvi on July 19 will replace Don Tracy of Springfield, who in his resignation letter last month bemoaned spending “far too much time dealing with intraparty power struggles, and local intraparty animosities” involving “Republicans who would rather fight other Republicans than engage in the harder work of defeating incumbent Democrats.”