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Originally Posted by bnk
Kind of old news and these are not the high paying ones. But Any new jobs in the south suburbs has to be good. Some white collar jobs too, that's what the video in the link states.
https://abc7chicago.com/amazon-markh...jobs/10993318/
Sept 1/21
Amazon to open 6000 jobs to two south suburban suburbs.
3K jobs in Markham and 3K jobs in Matteson.
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6000 jobs moves the needle. That's a LOT of jobs.
The U.S. had about 18,000,000 manufacturing jobs from 1970 to 2000. Then from 2000 to 2010 we lost a third of them, basically all at once. Chicago took more than our fair share of those losses. Now that bleeding has stopped, look out.