{"id":2796,"date":"2019-01-14T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:00:27","slug":"elwood-illinois-pop-2200-has-become-a-vital-hub-of-americas-consumer-economy-and-its-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"Elwood, Illinois (Pop. 2,200), Has Become a Vital Hub of America\u2019s Consumer Economy. And It\u2019s Hell."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The passage of the Illinois Land Conservation Act in 1996 enshrined a solution. Nineteen thousand acres were converted into protected prairie land, where 73 head of bison currently roam. The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, the country\u2019s second-largest military cemetery, was also established.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/152836\/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell\">Elwood, Illinois (Pop. 2,200), Has Become a Vital Hub of America\u2019s Consumer Economy. And It\u2019s Hell. | The New Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a major victory. \u201cWhat happened was the community organized, they resisted and they won,\u201d Clack told me. \u201cBut there\u2019s a round two.\u201d Once news broke of Elwood\u2019s refusal, the developer submitted an application with the Will County board, hoping to override local authority. Hearings will begin again sometime in 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of the Illinois Land Conservation Act in 1996 enshrined a solution. Nineteen thousand acres were converted into protected prairie land, where 73 head of bison currently roam. The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, the country\u2019s second-largest military cemetery, was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleecing_the_rubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}