Gov. J.B. Pritzker was in Decatur on Thursday to announce the awarding of $10 million from the Illinois Competitive Freight Program to provide the “last funding piece” needed for the
ADM, both the city s largest employer and emitter of fossil fuels, will soon be able to pump liquified carbon dioxide into "pore space" more than a mile underneath city-owned land.
On Tuesday the French biotechnology company Innovafeed broke ground on its flagship U.S. plant in Decatur, which will soon be home to the company s insect breeding and processing.