Larry Suggett Jr., 65, who lives on Main Street Road in Kaneville, said he was taking ''an open mind'' toward the meeting, but he questioned the cost of the project. ''A lot of farmers say they wish it would go right through the middle of their farm, the way farming`s been going,'' he said. Kaus said the project might be a boon to some farmers` flagging fortunes. Kaus Jr., 53, who owns a 120-acre farm off Main Street Road near the proposed site. ''We know it`s going to be real close, if it does come,'' said Floyd W. Until Tuesday night`s meeting in the Kaneville Civic Center, residents could only guess where the state might plant the ring.
Tristano estimated the letters would be sent by the end of January. Sandra Tristano, a lawyer for the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, said that once all the owners have been identified, the state will contact them, probably by letter. Etchison estimated that land acquisition for the project would cost $140 million, but because the path of the collider crosses numerous property lines, the state is still researching the ownership of the land along the route. Department of Energy will release its list of qualifying states next week, Ebbert said, and the Reagan administration is expected to announce the winning site in July.ĭon Etchison, state energy and natural resources director, said the route was determined by extensive geological testing at 33 sites over the last year. The possibility that Illinois will land the project received a boost last month when the National Academy of Sciences included the state on a short list of qualified states. State officials have claimed that by tying the supercollider into the existing particle accelerator at Fermilab, the cost of the project could be lowered by $350 million. Illinois is believed to be a leading contender for the $6 billion high-energy project, which will crash speeding subatomic particles into each other to study the basic building blocks of nature.
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