Prairie State

Finishing her degree she ended up teaching in the Prairie State.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

Finishing her degree she ended up teaching in the Prairie State.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

Finishing her degree she ended up teaching in the Prairie State.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

That’s right, here in the heart of the Prairie State, where big-wheeled pickups and corn silos the size of space shuttles rule, plug-in cars have come to town.

Rocky Kistner: The Electric Car and the New Normal Rocky Kistner 2012

And Illinois's top politicians, who helped the Prairie State become one of only two with a projected deficit next year, made $22,000 more than the average person they represent.

The Case for Amateur Pols in Illinois 2010

In addition to Prairie State, AMP-Ohio, a wholesale utility that furnishes power to smaller utilities, is an investor in a 900-megawatt coal-plant project in Ohio.

Banks Hope to Expand Carbon Rules to Public Utilities 2008

It's now roughly 3.2 million people -- twice as many as currently live in the Prairie State.

CNN.com 2011

It's now roughly 3.2 million people -- twice as many as currently live in the Prairie State.

CNN.com 2011

Though the company and its partners promote the plant as a national model for environmentally friendly "clean coal" technology, Prairie State will be the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Abraham Lincoln - also from the Prairie State - perhaps forecast his presidential progeny when he observed:

The Absurd Report The Bear 2010