Adam Baumgartner, 23, defeated Judy Ogalla in the Republican primary for State Senate in the 40th district.

Baumgartner will face incumbent Democrat Toi Hutchinson in November.

Baumgartner, whose campaign was virtually non-existent until weeks before the primary, got a last-minute boost of campaign cash from the Operating Engineers Local 150 and Ozinga Concrete.

Baumgartner, won with 6,016 votes to Ogalla's 4,437 votes.

Baumgartner is a business owner and member of the Peotone School Board.

Ogalla is a longtime opponent of the Peotone Airport. It is unclear whether the Peotone Airport played a role in her race. It was however, the focus of a referendum in Crete Township where voters were asked whether or not they favor building a new airport.

By almost 14 percent voters rejected the proposal, with 1,724 against it and 1,313 for it.

Crete Township was the only township in eastern Will and northern Kankakee Counties not to vote in a 1990 Farm Bureau-sponsored referendum. Tuesday's vote makes it unanimous – 12 out of 12 townships oppose the project.