Departing state House GOP leader Jim Durkin giving up his seat in Illinois General Assembly

SPRINGFIELD — Outgoing Illinois Home Republican Chief Jim Durkin may also resign his place within the Illinois Common Meeting after 22 years.

“After 22 years within the Common Meeting, 9 because the minority chief, it’s a time to provide this nice duty to the subsequent technology of public servants,” Durkin stated in a letter to the Clerk of the Home, which additionally stated his resignation is efficient on January 10 at 11:50 p.m.

The Western Springs Republican in November stated he was relinquishing his function as Home minority chief, a largely thankless job as his get together moved additional to the suitable and the state moved additional to the left.

Regardless of his high-profile departure, Durkin in November advised the Solar-Instances that he desires average Republicans to soldier on.

“The state desires people who find themselves extra to the center. That’s why we have now a much bigger unbiased voting bloc, due to the extremes in each events. Extremes on each side dictate the primaries, and that’s what occurs within the basic elections,” Durkin stated. 

State Rep. Tony McCombie of Savanna will change Durkin because the Home Republican chief.