Chicago Tribune: The trash at Will County’s Prairie View landfill is expected to provide enough energy to power at least 2,000 homes by next spring and as many as 8,000 by 2012. Local officials recently broke ground at the county-owned landfill in Wilmington on a plant that will convert into energy the methane gas given off by the trash. Will County is using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help fund the project while Waste Management will pay the remaining $6.2 million needed …