About 1,200 jobs will be opened in Chicago when Ford Motor Co. starts making the Explorer sport-utility vehicle later this year, says a report from the Crain’s Chicago Business.
Ford executives, along with Gov. Pat Quinn, are expected to announce the Explorer production at 10 a.m. EST Tuesday at the plant near 130th Street. Crain’s first reported about this plan almost a year ago, saying that bringing the Explorer from Louisville, Ky., to the Chicago plant would be helped by recent tax credits that Quinn approved. The Torrence Avenue plant is expected to have a second shift again to accommodate production of the Explorer.
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