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Wind Farm Application Filed In McLean County

Illinois State University
Another wind farm could come to McLean County.

A wind farm company has filed an application for a new field of wind towers from south of Chenoa to Lexington and southeast nearly to Colfax.

Invenergy has asked for a public hearing before the McLean County Zoning Board of Appeals early next year.

Invenergy has acquired easements from landowners for 124 turbines and hopes to begin construction next year. The Zoning Board of Appeals hearing will be Jan. 2 at Heartland Community College.

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WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.