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Article: Local Ford assembly plant to keep producing automobiles.
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- The Times (Munster, IN)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2006
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Byline: Andrea Holecek
Sep. 24--Under the company's restructured Way Forward plan, Ford's Chicago Assembly plant will be one of only two plants in the country producing Ford's automobiles.
Chicago Assembly opened in 1924 and is the company's oldest operating facility worldwide.
"Chicago is in the immediate plans for Ford Motor Co.'s future," said a top manger at the plant, who asked not to be identified. "It's one of the plants they're figuring will help them recover. Chicago Assembly and the products it produces have an important role in the future of Ford Motor Co."
There are two main reasons for the survival of the plant, he said. ...