A crowd of about 80 people gathered just before Halloween at the La Grange Public Library to learn more about Project 2025 at an open forum Oct. 29 organized by the La Grange Area League of Women Voters.

Jack Bentley, executive director of the Citizens Advocacy Center in Elmhurst, spoke for more than one hour, saying that while his organization was normally involved in issues on democracy at a local level, the current political climate called for a national approach.

“Since our mission is rooted in democracy and has been for thirty years, and since people are concerned about where democracy stands federally, uniquely in the last year or so, we’re going to talk about it,” he said.

Project 2025, was put together by the conservative Heritage Foundation in 2023 to serve as a template for le

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