BELVIDERE, Ill. (WLS) -- President Joe Biden will visit Illinois on Thursday. He will be meeting with United Auto Workers in Belvidere as well as UAW president Shawn Fain and Governor JB Pritzker.

After a period of relative quiet, new signs are emerging that Illinois is on the hunt for one or more new electric vehicle production plants — and that the state may be making some progress. A Detroit ...

Jul 6, 2023 Jul 6, 2023 Updated Dec 7, 2023 0 ROCKFORD — The Stateline is getting further down the tracks for its service to Chicago. On Thursday morning, Governor Pritzker and state leaders announced ...

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WLS) -- Lawmakers are calling on Stellantis to reopen its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois. The plant stopped operations last year. Reopening it was a main sticking point in ...

Omar Burton Wright, Jr. (Burt), died on December 12, 2016, at the age of ninety years old in Los Angeles, California. A native son of Belvidere, Illinois, Burt’s pioneer ancestors were prominent in ...

Illinois is a big winner in the new contract between the United Auto Workers and Stellantis, which will reopen its Belvidere plant to make trucks and build a new battery factory. The tentative deal ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --President Joe Biden arrived in Illinois to meet with auto workers and attend a Chicago fundraiser. On Thursday afternoon, he spoke with the United Auto Workers union members and Gov.

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James E. Glenn, 85, of Poplar Grove, IL, passed away Monday April 7, 2014 at Mapelcrest Care Center in Belvidere, IL. He was born on May 10, 1928 in Chicago, IL; the son of the late James and Francis ...

President Joe Biden called Belvidere, Illinois, the Boone County seat of just more than 25,000 residents, a "great comeback story" during his State of the Union address Thursday night. The president ...