BOONE COUNTY, Ill. (WIFR) – Mary Brubach points past solar panels neighboring her mom’s backyard.
“Basically, you can see Kish almost straight through the solar fields,” she says with a water bottle in one hand and a finger broached in the other. The former Kishwaukee elementary school appears just on the horizon through squinting eyes.
“Growing up as a kid going to Kish,” reflected Brubach, “I could walk to Kishwaukee.” Afraid to cross U.S. 20, she chose the school bus instead…