The United Automobile Workers union has been pressing the automaker, which owns Chrysler and Jeep, to revive the plant in Belvidere, Ill.

John Elkann, chairman of Jeep-maker Stellantis, wasted no time reassuring President Trump of the global automaker’s commitment to U.S. manufacturing. The scion of Italy’s famous Agnelli family met with Trump last week to emphasize the company’s support for American workers.

The man struck by the Jeep was a 35-year-old Freeburg resident. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment but was later pronounced dead.

Kayleigh Dalrymple,14, of Chillicothe Illinois died after a Jeep she was in with five others lost control and struck a group of trees.

Automaker Stellantis plans to reopen an assembly plant in Illinois and build the next generation Dodge Durango in Detroit, the automaker said Wednesday

UAW workers in the stateline are shouting a rally cry as automaker Stellantis announces it will reopen its shuttered Belvidere, Illinois auto assembly plant. UAW officials say in a statement

Illinois State Police said ... As police and firefighters were on the scene of the crash, a black Jeep hit three other vehicles, including a Chicago Fire Department fire truck that was helping ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A driver slammed into a Chicago Fire Department engine on Saturday morning, Illinois State police said. The crash happened at about 4:04 a.m. on the city's West Side on the eastbound lanes of I-290. ISP said a car was driving the wrong way and ended up crashing and overturning on the CTA tracks near Kostner Avenue.

According to an email, Stellantis Chair John Elkann met with President Donald Trump and discussed the company's plan to reopen the Belvidere plant.

Quite a few Cherokees and Mopar PTU assemblies have been produced with an input shaft snap ring that is not fully seated

The UAW believed the company was going back on its plant investment commitments. Now, as Trump takes office, the automaker has renewed its U.S. plans.

Stellantis’ chairman detailed several plans for U.S. investments when meeting with President Donald Trump before his Monday inauguration.