![]() ![]() He’ll doubtlessly celebrate the $5 billion his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set aside for electric school bus rebates last year. Lion Electric has invited Biden to its official ribbon-cutting in Joliet on July 21. Without such measures, the clean-air benefits of the electric vehicles Pritzker wants to build in Illinois will be going to other states, said Brian Urbaszewski, director of the Respiratory Health Association in Chicago. These include paying subsidies up to $120,000 per vehicle for electric trucks, and a requirement that Lion Electric’s competitors will also have to build more battery-powered vehicles. When the Democratic-controlled legislature finished its spring session last month, lawmakers approved bills to make it easier for public-private partnerships to expand I-55 to 10 lanes from six through Black and brown Chicago neighborhoods where life expectancy is already being suppressed by congestion and truck pollution.īut they adjourned without acknowledging the danger posed by this added pollution or considering any measures to mitigate it. Illinois spent just $7.9 million in incentives for the Lion Electric factory. Rivian began building vehicles in downstate Normal two years ago, and now employs a similar number there. Georgia won out in part with lavish incentives, including $1.5 billion for Rivian Automotive to build electric trucks and SUVs at a factory with 7,500 workers east of Atlanta. Georgia has been a big winner, with a staggering $23 billion in new electric vehicle investments since 2018. During that time, Illinois has failed to join in the parade of electric vehicle and battery plant announcements fueled by President Joe Biden’s historic infrastructure spending. That’s dozens of vehicles each day.īut two years have passed since the company’s Joliet announcement. In a few years, if all goes as planned, the Joliet plant could be building 20,000 buses and trucks a year, he said. Today the factory is hiring new workers every week and hopes to have the capacity to make 2,500 buses annually by the end of 2023, Bedard said. The Lion Electric factory is unquestionably a green feather in Pritzker’s cap.Įmployees work on the frame of a LionC electric school bus at the Lion Electric plant in Joliet. It offers hope that Illinois can put people to work attacking its most significant source of greenhouse gas pollution: tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. Lion Electric brings the prospect of 1,400 jobs and the first new vehicle assembly plant to metropolitan Chicago since 1965. Bedard wants to run a zero-emission enterprise, and he’s telling suppliers that someday soon he’ll refuse deliveries from fossil fuel-burning trucks.īedard is writing an updated rule book for Chicago manufacturing, even though he’s new to town and even though state officials in Springfield have yet to throw their full weight behind his company. It’s also - thanks to a statewide commitment Pritzker was then shepherding through the legislature - on its way to being carbon-free by 2050.Ĭlean energy was a big plus for Marc Bedard, the Lion Electric chief executive officer. Take my advice.if you go there only order the breakfast.Pritzker convinced the Canadian company that in suburban Will County, electricity is not just cheap, reliable and abundant. ![]() I can't believe this is the same place I loved before! It was pretty cheap but I'd rather pay more and have a good meal. What a disappointment after standing for thirty minutes (in heels) waiting for a table. I had thought to have a great -looking dessert but after the horrible meal I was afraid they weren't as good as they looked. ![]() I had planned to let our waitress know I couldn't eat it but by the time she finally came around I had let a busboy take it and just wanted to leave. I seldom leave food on my plate but I only ate about one third of my meal. It came with mashed potatoes and they tasted like they were out of a box. It was the very worst salmon I've ever tried to eat. I had planned on breakfast again until I saw a salmon dish as one of their specials. Obviously this place is great for breakfast and nothing else. I gave Stacks a great review after our first visit but after our second visit I have to change my review. ![]()
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