Ron Paul would have won the Illinois Straw Poll as well as NH and AL but for two factors:
1) As expected, Mitt Romney opened his wallet and his 8 air conditioned busloads of votes arrived on cue at the polling tent while supporters of other presidential hopefuls had to park nearly a mile away and trudge through the rainy fairgrounds to cast their votes.
2) But the real story of the day was how McKenna & crew reacted to a large number of new Republicans who turned out in support of Ron Paul
