Rockford area officials say an incentive package aimed at Stellantis' revival of the Belvidere Assembly Plant was expanded to include hybrids.

A record-setting $55.2 billion Illinois state budget for fiscal year 2026 reinforces plans for Rockford’s long-awaited ...

Chrysler opened the Belvidere Assembly Plant there in 1965, and at its peak employed about 5,000 people, but it had fallen on hard times in recent years as sales started to decline. When the plant ...

its the Belvidere Assembly Plant which Stellantis said on Friday will shut down indefinitely at the end of February. The plant had this year been limping along with a single shift of roughly 1,350 ...

The Winnebago County Coroner's Office has identified the man who was killed about 1:15 a.m. June 2 in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 20 near Meridian Road. The victim was Thomas Walker Jr., 41 ...

Chrysler's parent company, Stellantis' Belvidere Assembly Plant, was indefinitely idled at the end of February of last year. More than 1,000 would be out of work. The news in Belvidere ...

“They say they want to ‘delay’ reopening Belvidere Assembly but they really want to kick the can past our contract expiration so they can suddenly cite ‘market conditions’ again and ...

Eight months after “indefinitely” idling the Belvidere Assembly Plant, Stellantis has committed to investing nearly $5 billion to retool it for production of a new midsize truck, build an ...

Stellantis is still on track to reopen its Belvidere assembly plant in 2027, despite President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies that pushed the automaker to temporarily lay off hundreds ...

"The opening in Belvidere again is a gigantic deal, as far as I'm concerned," Biden told the crowd. As part of a deal reached with Stellantis, the automaker has agreed to reopen the Assembly Plant ...

In a dramatic turnabout that defuses months of wrangling with the UAW, Stellantis says it will restart its idled Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois and build the next-generation Dodge Durango in ...

Stellantis confirmed Tuesday that it intends to delay — but not cancel — plans for the reopening of the Belvidere Assembly Plant, and said in a statement that the UAW cannot strike over the issue.