Reagan crusader to beat drums here

A Joliet expatriate is expected in Chicago today on the firstleg of a two-week, 10-city tour to stir support for President Reaganfrom the "Silent Majority."

Sal Dileo, a 32-year-old business consultant from Bloomington,Minn., said his Come on, America organization is promoting aletter-writing campaign to counter "negative criticism" Reagan hasreceived for the Iran-contra affair. "Most of us feel like he's donea good job," Dileo said yesterday. "The Silent Majority wants tospeak."

Dileo, who received his elementary education at St. Raymond'sCathedral School in Joliet, said the organization takes its name froma song he wrote and had recorded in 1984 in honor of …