When Illinois state officials unveiled a $2 billion battery project in 2023 with great fanfare, to be built in a village of roughly 9,000 people, local residents who opposed it faced a battle against more than a multinational company.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration welcomed the Gotion Illinois project with a state incentive package valued at $536 million, promises of thousands of jobs, and local approvals that were celebrated as an economic development victory.
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