Prairie State

Only a tenth of a percent of the prairie that held the soil together for centuries in Illinois, the “Prairie State,” remains today.

For the “Middle of Everything” campaign, the award-winning actor traipses around the Prairie State wearing a jaunty blue beret and a gleeful expression.

Prairie State Generating Station, Illinois’ largest emitter, will be allowed to remain open.

And the 2012 opening of Marissa’s Prairie State Generating Co., under existing clean-air laws, reveals the economic and ideological struggle over the severity of the threat of climate change and how best to halt it.

Prairie State has hired union tradespeople for a portion of the work.