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Pritzker is dead wrong to brush off criticism of his Gotion battery project as “MAGA Republican” and “xenophobic.”
Moving trucks and even buses have been dropping off some families at the temporary shelter near North Ogden and West Carroll avenues, the third migrant shelter in the West Loop. There had been eight different companies operating in the building. “It’s just kind of crazy how fast it all happened,” one employee said. “You can just get forced out of your workspace without having anything or anywhere to go.”
A recent study from consumer finance website WalletHub put Illinois at the bottom of all states for racial equality. The areas reviewed include Illinois ranked 47th for both median household income and labor-force participation rate, 50th for unemployment rate, 33rd for homeownership rate, 40th for poverty rate, 46th for homeless rate, 49th for share of unsheltered homeless and 45th for share of executives.
“Governor Pritzker’s policies and vision for the state’s EV future are under the microscope, with the Gotion deal being a litmus test for his administration’s capabilities and foresight.”
The lithium-ion batteries will be used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The erstwhile Land of Lincoln’s Democrat governor, J. B. Pritzker, has offered Chinese Communist Party-linked battery manufacturer Gotion more than half a billion dollars in largess to build a plant in Manteno, a town located approximately 50 miles south of Chicago. Pritzker has decided to shrug off any national security concerns.
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