🔋 Batteries · Manteno, Illinois
💰 $2 billion👷 2,600 jobs (long-term goal; about 300 working there in late 2025)🏗️ Operating; assembling energy-storage systems, battery cell production plannedBattery energy-storage systems and planned lithium-ion cell production in a converted Kankakee County plant.
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Source: Daily Journal (Kankakee), Nov 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
💊 Pharmaceuticals · Kankakee, Illinois
CSL: Plasma therapy plant expansion
💰 $1.5 billion👷 300 jobs (permanent jobs; about 800 construction jobs during the build)🏗️ Broke ground March 9, 2026; expected to be operational by 2031A major expansion of CSL's plasma-derived therapy and albumin plant, with about 800 construction jobs during the build.
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Source: CSL newsroom · checked Oct 26, 2026
🏭 Manufacturing · Joliet, Illinois
Hyundai Translead: Will County trailer plants
💰 $600 million (raised from $450 million, adding a third shift)👷 3,750 jobs (full-time)🏗️ Announced; two former plants being refitted, production by 2027Commercial trailers, truck bodies and flatbeds at two retrofitted plants in Will County.
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Source: Herald-News, Oct 22, 2026 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🚗 Automotive · Belvidere, Illinois
Stellantis: Belvidere Assembly reopening
💰 $600 million (more than)👷 3,300 jobs🏗️ Announced; production expected 2027 to 2028Reopening the idled Belvidere plant to build Jeep models, part of Stellantis' $13 billion U.S. plan.
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Source: Stellantis announcement, Oct 14, 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
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