In the past 10 years, Bloomington-Normal experienced more growth than any other Illinois city outside the Chicago area, but now the Twin Cities are just a little too for its own district. The Bloomington-Normal area is currently split between two house districts. 87th District Representative Dan Rutherford and 88th District Representative Dan Brady attended Friday's meeting. As if skyrocketing gasoline prices aren't bad enough, now comes word that some fuel is bad. Decatur-based Archer Daniels Midland Company says it sent ethanol with too much rust inhibitor to terminals serving Chicago, Rockford, Milwaukee and Bettendorf, Iowa.
Ethanol is blended with gasoline to make it burn cleaner.
The Wisconsin Petroleum Council Executive Director says the problem developed ADM shipped out 120,000 gallons of ethanol with 100 times the usual amount of rust inhibitor. The additive could harm fuel filters, but will not serious damage to cars. Back A Commander Pekin native Scott Altman Thursday night returned to his hometown as the keynote speaker for the Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce annual dinner. Altman's appearance came on the third anniversary of piloting his first space shuttle mission. We're going to try to put solar rays and a new instrument on to make it more powerful.