Braidwood

Google is putting billions of dollars into a multi-state grid upgrade, and about half of that money will go to four nuclear plants in Illinois.

The company is spending $2 billion to upgrade Constellation facilities in Braidwood, Byron, LaSalle, and Quad Cities.

Nuclear power is electricity generated using heat from nuclear reactions, and Constellation is the largest nuclear provider in the U.S. Constellation says the modernization will result in more power generation and construction jobs in Illinois.

Well, as the tech boom places unprecedented demands on our power grid, Illinois is doubling down on nuclear energy.

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Senator, you represent the 38th district, and so this would be a win for your district.

It is home to both the Braidwood and LaSalle nuclear plants.

With half of Google's $4.3 billion multi-state nuclear investment landing in Illinois to upgrade these facilities and adding additional power generation, how big of a win would you categorize this is for your district, the workforce, and the

And that distinction becomes important because we are talking about memory.

There's another case that appears repeatedly in the modern Chicago research involving a hunter named Gerald Therese and a reported sighting in Braidwood, Illinois in the winter of 1957.

Therese described seeing a winged creature with the body of a large man flying silently over the trees.

At first glance, that's exactly the kind of case you would want if you're trying to demonstrate that reports of a winged humanoid existed before Mothman became a cultural phenomenon.

Gallo's basic argument is that supernatural ideas can be socially and culturally transmitted, meaning that the template itself can spread even if the underlying phenomenon remains unexplained.

And that's actually a good argument.

And I originally thought I had a good counter argument because I was going to point to the 1957 Braidwood sighting and say, essentially, see, here's a winged humanoid report before the Mothman template existed, except that I had just explained the problem with it.

The Braidwood account wasn't documented in 1957.