A two-term DuPage County board member and a 28-year-old with one local-government race under his belt are facing off in this year’s Republican primary in Illinois House District 49.
Six-term state Rep. Mike Fortner (R-West Chicago) currently represents the district but announced last August that he would not seek re-election. Fortner’s announcement came following his vote to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of the state’s budget bill that included a 32 percent income tax hike.