Kirk Dillard wins Cook County GOP straw vote for governor

Cook County Republicans in their straw poll Saturday showed support for gubernatorial candidate Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale in the February primary.

Among delegates attending the two-day convention in Rosemont, Dillard garnered 216 votes. In the field of six candidates, Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington came in second with 198 votes; Hinsdale businessman Adam Andrzejewski got 150 votes.

Dan Proft, a top aide to U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes, DuPage County Chairman Bob Schillerstrom, and Andy McKenna, former Illinois GOP chairman, had 142, 108 and 21 votes respectively.