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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 834757" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>[USER=986]@Eduard[/USER] I would wish you could take a slow trip back to Chicago on the secondary highways right now. One year ago I drove from Madison, WI to Benton, IL in the very rural south of the state, for the eclipse. But I can report across the entire state on the rural plains those small farm communities are nearly dead. I'm talking entire blocks of former commercial buildings boarded up. Population maybe 25% to 40% of their former glory before the great depression. In decades past every one of those communities supported farmers with grain depots, farm equipment implements, and likely a Ford dealer too. Now, windmill power turbines just keep growing out of the land to feed the cities with electricity instead of food. Where did all of those former farm kids go to? Some to Chicago of course.</p></blockquote><p></p>