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Tracy and his family members own Dot Foods based in Mt. Sterling, Ill.
Tracy becomes the first downstate GOP chair since Don Doc Adams in 1988.
SPRINGFIELD 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.
By Benjamin Cox on February 6, 2021 at 7:01pm
The Illinois GOP State Central Committee has selected a Brown County native as its next chairman of the Illinois Republican Party. Don Tracy was selected unanimously this evening by the committee to replace Tim Schneider, who announced his resignation in December.
The 70-year old Tracy is a businessman and lawyer with the firm Brown, Hay, & Stephens in Springfield. Born and raised in rural Mt. Sterling, he is the oldest of twelve children. Don and his eleven siblings own and manage Dot Foods, Inc. and its other national businesses and affiliates. Tracy is also the brother-in-law of 47th District State Senator Jil Tracy. Tracy becomes the first chairman of the Illinois Republican Party from outside Chicago and the collar counties since 1988.