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South Loop residents protest against a "proposed" power plant.


South Loop coal plant up in smoke

by Amarita Bansaland Alison W. Bullock
April 27, 2011


HOAX_SPLASH
Residents of the South Loop may have been pranked.  Signs and pamphlets led them to believe that the Midwest Generation corporation was going to build a coal plant in their neighborhood.  Only, the company's spokesperson denies it.