Soren Spicknall: Portions of the former McCormick Works - "the world's largest farm machine factory" - which operated for 100 years and eventually included over 100 acres' worth of facilities in what is now West Pullman. It employed thousands right up until its closure. www.assemblymag.com/articles/981...

Portions of the former McCormick Works - "the world's largest farm machine factory" - which operated for 100 years and eventually included over 100 acres' worth of facilities in what is now West Pullman. It employed thousands right up until its closure. www.assemblymag.com/articles/981...

Most of the land upon which McCormick Works once sat is disused and unmaintained, but about a third of the site was turned into the country's largest urban solar installation in 2010. At the time, early in solar adoption, that single installation tripled the solar capacity of the state of Illinois.

Best Solar Plant: West Pullman Solar Farmsouthsideweekly.com In 2010, a ten-megawatt solar farm began producing power on a forty-acre brownfield site, billed as the nation’s largest urban solar farm.

Wow, that article says there are over 1500 megawatts of solar in the state, as of September 2022. As of Q1 of this year, it’s almost double that, at 2948. (Guessing that a lot of the recent growth is thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, aka Biden’s major climate legislation.)

Illinois Solar | SEIAwww.seia.org Get facts and figures on the growth of solar energy in Illinois, including companies, projects, and policy resources.

Yeah, and to get to 1500 from 15 a decade before is a huge accomplishment

No question.

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