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Article: Super worries about super collider // Residents fear for selves, property
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 28, 1988
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Ed Kist and his partner confidently broke ground last month for
a $300,000 house in a subdivision north of St. Charles.
Last year, the partners sold two similar homes in the same
subdivision and they had eight people on a waiting list for their
latest home.
Then news hit that the subdivision would sit above a 53-mile
oval tunnel the state wants to dig for the proposed superconducting
super collider (SSC).
"All eight people said, `Thanks, but no thanks,' " Kist said.
"It's a beautiful subdivision, but they just don't want to live on
top of the ring."
Kist is among the hundreds joining a crusade called Citizens
Against The Collider Here. CATCH members say if Illinois edges out
six ...