Your Illinois REALTORS® GADs Advocating for You: Impact Fees — Unless someone fights it, it just keeps happening. That someone is Illinois REALTORS® — fighting to protect affordability. Illinois REALTORS® Local Governmental Affairs Director (GAD) Jeff Merrinette explains how advocacy can be a long game and points to a decades-long fight to successfully get DuPage County to repeal its road impact fee, something local governments are rarely willing to do.