Chicago Tribune (Sept. 26) -- When Chris Polly was a doctoral degree student at the University of Illinois in 2001, he worked on the 17-ton electromagnet at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Fourteen years later, he’s the project manager on firing up that same electromagnet – this time at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and after the magnet had not been turned on for more than 10 years.