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Residents of rural Bernadotte Township in western Illinois say a proposed 20,000-hog facility would imperil the Spoon River as well as their rural way of life.
Rural neighbors fight hog confinement plan
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Julie Totten, chief financial officer for Professional Swine Management, attends an Illinois Pollution Control Board hearing in December in Springfield. After litigating and negotiating with the state for six years, the company had agreed to pay the state $116,500 — without admitting any wrongdoing — for water pollution incidents at eight hog confinements in western Illinois.