ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Kelly Lewis fills her dining room table with public records. She labels each stack with a pink Post-It note, with the month and topic inscribed.
Each pile represents a month’s worth of emails or documents from early 2025 through mid-April of this year.
“It has been overwhelming, hard to process,” she concedes. Lewis began the Freedom of Information Act requests in March, after news broke of Monarch Energy’s possible data center down the street from her home near Rockford’s southeastern edge…