Article: 2008 'AMERICAN IDOL' WINNER DAVID COOK COMES TO TOWN AND GIVES USF STUDENTS AND STAFF A ROUSING PERFORMANCE.

JOLIET - "American Idol" winner David Cook "sneaked" into Joliet Monday night.

The show he gave about 230 University of Saint Francis students, staff and administrators at the Moser Performing Arts Center auditorium actually was part of his college tour that's only open to the campus-connected, so no advance word is given to communities along the tour's route.

The crowd that filled Moser and paid $20 a ticket to see Cook ranged in age from the very young (11) to a man who said, "I may be his oldest fan. I picked him (Cook) to win the first time I heard him sing at his audition," Ray Raguse, 75, of Morris, said. "I feel fortunate to be here. I would have walked to Chicago to see him."

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