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Since winning election in 2002, Attorney General Lisa Madigan hasn’t sought higher office.

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The reactor buildings at the nuclear power plant in Zion, not in use since 1998, are being dismantled by EnergySolutions.

Razing of nuclear towers announced for 2018 but spent nuclear rods will remain on site until permanent storage site completed

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he green-capped concrete towers of Zion’s barren lakefront will be gone soon, but the nuclear waste that has crippled the city economically will remain. ZionSolutions, which is part of Utahbased EnergySolutions, will finish deconstructing and demolishing the former Zion nuclear power plant and its 20-story containment silos in 2018, according to EnergySolutions Vice-President Mark Walker, but 61 casks full of spent nuclear rods will remain on-site indefinitely. The silos — which were the tallest structures in Lake County when they

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opened in the early 1970s and are second in overall structural height to the 330-foot Sky Trek Tower at Six Flags Great America — are scheduled to come down during the first quarter of next year. “The project will be physically completed with (deactivation and decommissioning) in 2018,” Walker said. However, although the federal government designated decades ago that the waste would go to Yucca Mountain in Nevada for permanent storage, the facility has not yet opened, and Zion is stuck with the waste until a solution can be found. The location of the casks worries David

Kraft, director of the Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, a nonprofit that opposes nuclear power. “We’re very concerned with the fact that these casks are visible, and they’re vulnerable,” Kraft said. Kraft said storing the casks near Lake Michigan is not appropriate in a post-9/11 world. “They’re lined up like bowling pins,” he said. City officials are also unhappy with the storage of the casks, attributing Zion’s economic troubles to the closed facility. When ComEd was running the plant,

By Yadira Sanchez Olson News-Sun

There’s something different about Six Flags Great America in Gurnee: A transformation from a summer festival to a Fright Fest has taken place. Starting Saturday and continuing through Oct. 31, the park will go from potted flowers and plants to spiderwebs, pumpkins

and skeletons. This is the first year the theme park extends its Fright Fest season by an extra weekend, said Tess Claussen, communications manager. Also new this year is a postfright event titled Last Call Fall Festival, which extends the park’s season even longer. “We’re really pushing the envelope for fun this year — more attractions and unique food items, like hot chocolate with a ghost Peep,” Claussen said. Turn to Fright, Page 5

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Six Flags ‘pushing envelope for fun’ Fright Fest starts early, theme park extending season into November

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Friday she won’t run for re-election in 2018, ending her stint after 16 years and saying little to answer why she is choosing to depart and what she might do next. The Democrat’s four terms as attorney general have come against the backdrop of a decadeslong reign in the Illinois House by her father, Speaker Michael Madigan. Her decision to step down marks the end of an era in which the state’s top attorney and the most powerful member of the General Assembly hail from the same family — a dynamic that Republicans have long criticized and used as political fuel against Democrats. Madigan said in her resignation announcement that it was “the right time” for her to leave. “As I look ahead, I believe that the end of my fourth term as

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U.N. condemns North Korea ballistic missile test Nation & World, Page 7

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Six Flags Great America is decked out for its annual Fright Fest on Thursday. The Halloween-themed event kicks off Saturday.

Season of ‘It’ raises more R-rated queries for parents Moran, Page 10

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