Illinois Republicans, Democrats focusing on building party up from the bottom

Candidate campaign signs outside the Chicago Public Library’s Clearing branch on Feb. 18 in the Clearing neighborhood. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker told reporters a few weeks ago that he was concerned about some local school and library board races.

“There are organizations that are anti-LGBTQ, that are racist, they’re anti Muslim, that are supporting candidates for these local boards. And they’re trying to take over at a local level and build up candidates at the local level that they can then run for the state legislature and for other offices.”