Stepping out onto the lush, green grass at Northeastern Illinois University for the first time this spring, it suddenly occurred to Chris Beacom just how much of an impact baseball could have on a community.
When Asian longhorned beetles were discovered in Ravenswood in 1998, George Toma was 4.
"I just saw guys with chainsaws all around," said Toma, now 14. "I wasn't sure what was going on."
Soon, he knew. All of the trees on his block were gone.
So when Ald. Gene Schulter (47th) announced Thursday that the pesky, tree-killing bug officially has been eradicated from Illinois, Toma and his neighbors cheered.
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