Woodward Selling Rockton Plant

Woodward Governor says it wants to sell Rockton plant to Chemtool.

Posted: 4:33 PM Aug 26, 2009

Chemtool will initially bring 50 jobs to Rockton and anticipates total employment in Rockton to be 500 team members. The approximately 210 Woodward Rockton members will relocate to the Woodward Rockford facility on North Second Street in the coming months. Construction on the 102,266 square-foot Rockton building was completed in 1989.

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Local jobless rate at highest since ’83 - - BusinessRockford.com

metro area shed 1,700 jobs from June to July, with the biggest losses coming in the service sector and local government, including teaching jobs, according to Illinois

Rockford and Belvidere had identical unemployment rates at 16.5 percent

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The Belvidere Daily Republican. - New law to put more locally grown food on Illinois tables

allows them to pay a premium of up to 10 percent above the lowest bid in order to purchase locally grown goods.

Establishment of local food procurement goals for state agencies to purchase 20 percent of their food locally by 2020. State-funded institutions such as schools would have a goal of 10 percent by 2020.

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Thinking prudently | Daily Chronicle

And where is Boone County—not thinking at all?

The [DeKalb] county board is considering making DeKalb County a “recovery zone,” another program of the stimulus package that would bring $15 million in a different kind of low-interest bonds to the county.

Taxpayers are understandably hesitant to embrace borrowing by local governments. In appearances alone, spending millions during a recession is a tough case to make. But it could also be the financially prudent thing to do, and for that reason local governments should strongly consider using these programs

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