Wind turbines important for area's future energy needs
By Tim Mitchell
Sunday April 29, 2007
Heather Coit
A haze covers he wind farm as seem from the sky outside Ellsworth. The $700 million project is expected to be completed by year's end.
The rolling landscape around the small town of Arrowsmith – about 14 miles west of Gibson City – looks more like Holland than central Illinois.
Some 50 square miles of prime black farmland are dotted with windmills.
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