GOP in Illinois picking Romney? Hardly. I worked the Palin booth her at the IL state fair and Romney signups were almost as bad as Cain signups. You know who was overwhelmingly popular here? Ding Ding Ding, you guessed it, Sarah Palin. Hmmmm... but how can that be? Maybe ordinary people have enough common sense to figure out we don’t need no more stinkin used car salesmen. Just sayin...
Not an expert on Illinois politics, but looking at their GOP US Senator, seems to be a fairly moderate to liberal GOP establishment in that state compared to others.