Imagine something that unexpected, that wondrous, landing in Sangamon County. In the 1960s Chicago’s electric utility, Commonwealth Edison, needed another power plant. Looking back, the Kincaid power generating station makes the proposed CyrusOne facility look like a garden shed. At its peak, the mine and power plant together employed roughly 1,300 people. That paid for a lot of nice pickups, but it did not transform Sangamon County or even come close.