Carl Lambrecht

Manufacturing optical parts is a family trade for Carl Lambrecht, the second generation of his family to work in optics.¹ His industry profile describes overseeing production of standard and custom optics, including work with tiny lenses and optical parts as large as one meter.¹ His business, Laurel Industries, is based in Highland Park.¹ The firm's work includes prototypes and larger production orders made to military standards or customers' specifications.¹

In his 2026 questionnaire, Lambrecht wrote that his mother died on the day he was born in December 1932.² He also listed Army service from 1956 to 1964.² His 2024 candidate questionnaire identified graduate coursework in optics as part of his education.³ In that questionnaire, he also described living and working in a number of countries.³

Lambrecht has served as a Republican precinct committeeman.² He sought a District 113 school board seat in 2011, campaigning on changes to education laws and costs.⁴ He ran for the Illinois House in 2024 and is now the Republican candidate for the 10th Congressional District.⁵

His current questionnaire supports free enterprise, cutting federal spending to reduce debt and reducing school and municipal bureaucracy.² He favors eliminating federal and state education boards in favor of local control.² He supports legal protection for human life from conception, with an exception to save the pregnant woman's life.² He opposes requiring higher earners to pay more taxes to finance relief for working families.²