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Belvidere
[bel-vi-deer]
noun
a city in N Illinois.
Example Sentences
The plans, which the company said represent its largest US investment push in its 100-year history, include the reopening of a factory in Belvidere, Illinois, whose fate has been a source of tension between the company and the United Auto Workers since the plant closed in 2023.
Stellantis will invest $600 million to reopen Belvidere to expand production of the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Compass, with initial production expected to launch in 2027.
A midsize Ram pickup that the company had planned to build at an idled factory in Belvidere, Ill., will be built at Stellantis’ assembly complex in Toledo, Ohio.
More than $600 million will be spent to reopen the Belvidere factory to build the Jeep Cherokee midsize SUV and Compass SUV in the U.S.
“I’ve been involved in the U.A.W. longer than you’ve been alive,” Mr. Biden, then 80, told the boisterous crowd at an event in Illinois in November, after the union reached an agreement with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis on a contract that included pay increases and reopened a plant in Belvidere, Ill.
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