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

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 will also be upgrading its U.S. auto plants across the country — investing $1.2 billion in the Belvidere plant.

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

Automaker Stellantis plans to produce a new midsize pickup truck at the assembly plant near Rockford. The move will put about 1,500 UAW-represented employees back to work.

The news, announced in a letter to employees from North America Chief Operating Officer Antonio Filosa on Wednesday, also provided some good news to workers in Detroit, where the next generation Dodge Durango will be built and those in Toledo, Ohio, and Kokomo, Indiana, where investments are planned.

The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with Trump, based on their shared "America First" economic nationalism, have accelerated in since the inauguration.

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

According to the 2023 agreement, Stellantis planned to invest $4.8 billion into Belvidere – with $3.2 billion directed to the proposed battery plant. Senator Durbin says the company will now contribute $1.2 billion towards the plant.

Stellantis NV is recommitting to US factory investments agreed to more than a year ago as the maker of Jeep sport utility vehicles seeks the good graces of President Donald Trump.

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