NOT IN MY FRONT YARD!

UGLY TOWERS ARE SPROUTING LIKE TOADSTOOLS IN SUBURBIA

Imagine waking up one morning and discovering an ungainly metal tower, 150 ft. tall, looming above the trees in your front yard. No, such a contraption--a stout monopole topped with a crown of antennas--doesn't yet mar my leafy corner of suburbia. But it will soon, unless I do something about it, and that prospect has spurred me, along with my neighbors, to churn out a torrent of letters, petitions and telephone calls. Why, we wonder, must Dallas-based PrimeCo Personal Communications plop its tower in a residential area of Du Page County, Illinois, when there are plenty of other sites nearby where...

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