Showing posts with label National Environmental Policy Act. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Peotone area residents seething over Jesse Jackson, Jr. insensitivities


Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s election-night bravado included a statement during an interview that has the residents of eastern Will County seething.

During an interview following Jackson's victory in the Democratic primary challenge where he handily defeated ex-Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson, Jackson told WLS-TV reporter Paul Meincke that the site of the airport he wants to build currently contains nothing but tumbleweed?