Obama Can Eat Steak in Belvidere as Chrysler Brings Jobs

by Craig Trudell and Hasan Dudar
Bloomberg Businessweek
July 13, 2012

Chrysler Group LLC’s factory in Belvidere, Illinois, is bustling, shipping about 300 Dodge Darts a day…

Chrysler’s investment will bring total employment by the automaker and its suppliers in the region to 6,000, according to the area’s economic development group…

Belvidere and other communities tied to the auto industry are bucking a national trend of slowing job growth. Employment in the motor vehicles and parts manufacturing sector has increased by 25 percent, or 155,400 jobs, from the industry’s lowest point in July 2009…

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