THOMSON, Ill. — The new signs at the north and south ends of Thomson give the town’s population as 600, but nobody remembers 50 people moving in since the last census. In this small Mississippi River community in northwest Illinois, they surely would have noticed. Dubbed by locals the “Melon Capital of the World,” Thomson […]
Jamie Murnane
Jamie Murnane is a Chicago-based freelance writer. She has written for the Sun-Times, the Tribune’s Metromix.com, and Newcity Chicago,
among other publications.
