Chicago's 'rooftop pastor,' Rev. Corey Brooks, to speak at Republican convention in Milwaukee

Chicago’s “rooftop pastor” Rev. Corey Brooks will deliver the final prayer on Night 2 of the Republican National Convention.

The South Side pastor who routinely crisscrosses the city among shooting scenes said on social media he was “grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to giving a shoutout to Chicago.”

Brooks is a Republican who has boosted GOP candidates.

Southern Illinois delegate and state Rep. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, said his slot showed the GOP is a “big tent party.”

“When you see African Americans, Latinos, and I think we're going to see some other demographic groups, that are going to be represented — I think America is going to see very clearly that the big tent party is here,” Bryant said.

“We're united and honestly, someone like Corey Brooks speaking on the stage tonight should send a message that we are united in that message and we're United going forward.”

Have gun, should vote, says Miller

Heavily Democratic Illinois could become a Republican bastion — if only everyone with a gun cast a vote, according to Illinois’ most fervent Donald Trump supporter in Congress.

U.S. Rep. Mary Miller made that assessment after addressing the Illinois delegation to the Republican National Convention Tuesday at their hotel outside Milwaukee.

Asked what the state GOP needs to do to round up support for the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Miller said “we need to get people out to vote.

“if just gun owners would come out and vote in Illinois, we could flip the state red,” Miller told reporters. “Get people out to vote. Everybody has a realm of influence. Get busy, people.”

Miller said the party would have better luck reaching voters in the middle “if the media would accurately report who President Trump is what he's done for the American people.”

“I can say one thing to the people, the parents that are in Chicago and their children are being forced into failed schools,” Miller said. “There are three things that give a child privilege: parents that are married and stayed together, faith… and an excellent education, and you're damaging a child for life to give them a terrible education.”

Earlier, she had told delegates that Democratic supermajorities in the State Capitol had turned it into “a bad idea factory.”

“We cannot surrender the whole state of our great President Abraham Lincoln to [Gov. J.B.] Pritzker and the radical left,” she told Illinois delegates. “We’re in a race to the bottom with California and New York.”

Also mingling with delegates at the hotel breakfast Tuesday was llinois Republican Party chairwoman-elect Kathy Salvi, making her first appearance since being elected last week as the next face of the party.

As delegates gathered for their group breakfast at their Oak Creek, Wisconsin hotel, Salvi chatted with current chairman Don Tracy, who announced his resignation last month complaining of incessant intraparty fighting.

Salvi, who officially takes over as party chair Friday after the Republican National Convention concludes, is expected to address delegates on Wednesday.

She ran unsuccessfully against U.S Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., in 2022.

Project 2025 is Trump’s agenda, Dems say

Also Tuesday morning, Democrats planned a news conference at a downtown Milwaukee office on Project 2025, a product of the Heritage Foundation developed with the help of hundreds of former staffers from Donald Trump's first presidential administration.

Democrats call it a blueprint for a second Trump term.

Top party officials will use the news conference to "highlight Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda to rip away health care access, slash Social Security and Medicare, and build an economy that delivers for Donald Trump’s ultra-wealthy friends on the backs of working families," according to a news release from the Biden-Harris campaign. Quentin Fulks, deputy campaign manager for Biden-Harris was among those at the news conference.

Also appearing: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party; and Liz Schuler, president of the AFL-CIO.