Pat Brady, who took over as chairman of the Illinois Republican Party in August, was elected to a full four-year term today by GOP leaders.
Brady, an attorney from St. Charles, was approved unanimously by the 19-member Republican State Central Committee, which held its post-Feb. 2 primary election organizing meeting in Springfield. Brady is no relation to state Sen. Bill Brady, the Republican governor candidate.
Brady, who has been the state GOP’s Republican National Committeeman, became chairman last summer after Andy McKenna quit the post. At the time, McKenna expressed little interest in running for office, but went on to wage a costly losing primary effort for governor.
Brady, a close ally of Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, was a leading supporter in the primary of U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk’s GOP bid for the U.S. Senate. Kirk easily outdistanced several rivals and faces Democratic nominee, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, this fall.
![A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-CPD-luis-huesca-01_187858445_de8a4b.jpg?w=620 "A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]")
