Here is one disgusting anti-coal and anti-gas diatribe from the Chicago Tribune. The author even smears coal mining regions of Illinois as "closer to Tupelo, Mississippi than to Chicago," as though they're outsiders to the "real" Illinois of Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/09/17/new-law-sets-end-dates-for-fossil-fuel-power-plants-but-illinois-coal-mining-remains-a-huge-contributor-to-climate-changing-pollution/>Pritzker and state lawmakers stopped short of confronting the state’s coal industry — at least directly — because it provides jobs and pays taxes, albeit with a small fraction of the workers it once employed in a region of Illinois closer to Tupelo, Mississippi, than Chicago.God how I want these climate change snots all gone. May they all die painfully.
