74 Quotes About Counties

Imagine the economic impact to the area, the state and the nation if no one in McLean and Tazewell counties could farm for two years. That's the kind of impact this flooding will have.

Wind systems are so new we don't have anything in our zoning ordinance that addresses this type of electrical generation. There are counties in Illinois that have wind energy systems. Those are Bureau, Henry, Lee, McLean, and Mercer. McLean County, I believe, is going to be producing the largest wind energy system in the state, if not the Midwest. I think that's somewhere around a $300 million project.

If we don't do something this session, we don't have a program set up to deal with this long-term. And the counties are then going to be kind of just sitting there, saying, 'Boy, if this stuff starts ending up in the ditches, what do we do? Who's going to pay for that? So it ends up on property taxes.

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

You find the highest illegal immigration counties are now in the Midwest.

When we look at county maps, we have four sightings in 12 counties in a short enough period of time that it is highly doubtful it was all one twister. We're getting damage reports from 28 different counties.

We have some families driving in from those counties to go to our programs. We want to get the programs into more counties, so families won't have to drive so far.

The labor movement in all four counties is enthusiastically supportive of Capri. When it's all said and done, she'll have the greatest number of endorsements, and the greatest number of voters within the labor movement.

So you do have your work cut out for you, ... I'm not going to pretend this is going to be easy here in this county. But other counties have managed to defeat these kinds of initiatives.