NEWS
April 24, 1997 | JUDY PASTERNAK, TIMES STAFF WRITER
From the campus that houses Byron's public schools, the nuclear power plant's cooling towers shimmer in the distance, ghostly blue. For nearly a decade, those towers symbolized a font of plenty--generating electricity for every corner of the state and money, so much money, for this farm town across the chestnut-brown Rock River. Commonwealth Edison owns the power plant and pays the property taxes.