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The Byron Clean Energy Center is a nuclear power plant located in Ogle County, Illinois, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Rock River.The reactor buildings were constructed by Commonwealth Edison and house two Westinghouse Four-Loop [2] pressurized water reactors, Unit 1 and Unit 2, which began operation in September 1985 and August 1987 respectively.
The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world's tallest ...
Matthew Todd Lauer (/ l aʊər /; born December 30, 1957) is a former American television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. [1] After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the news anchor for NBC's Today from 1994 to 1997.
The site of the proposed Skyneedle now is host to a parking garage. If it had been built when it was planned, the 1,999 ft (609 m) tall Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle would have been the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion. [1] The tower's plans were unveiled in 1988. The plans would falter due to the post-Gulf War market ...
Hofmann Tower is a tower in Lyons, Illinois.It was built in 1908 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.. Hofmann Tower is featured prominently in two books written by Rose Marie Benedetti and Virginia C. Bulat entitled Lyons: A history of a village and area important for 300 years (1959) and Portage, pioneers, and pubs: A history of Lyons, Illinois (1963).
Six years after Matt Lauer was fired from Today following his misconduct scandal, he reunited with several of his former coworkers. Lauer, 65, was spotted at the wedding of former show producer ...
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois.The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed.
How one of the best restaurants in Peoria, Illinois, became "the most infamous restaurant in the state." 40 years ago, a beloved Peoria restaurant was the source of a historic botulism outbreak ...