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To: StanX Long who wrote (62933)	4/18/2002 2:40:34 AM
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4/17/02 - Motorola to close Harvard, Ill., campus host.wallstreetcity.com CHICAGO, Apr 17, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Before Motorola Inc. decided to build a mammoth plant in the farm community of Harvard, the biggest thing to hit town was the giant statue of Harmilda, the fiberglass Holstein that graces Main Street. In 1994, Motorola changed all that, announcing it would build a $90 million cellular telephone plant that would occupy 400 acres, employ 3,000 people and bring development to the tiny agricultural town some 50 miles northwest of Chicago. The dream ended Tuesday with the announcement the Schaumburg-based communications giant would close the plant next April. The plant had been open only five years. Nearly 3,000 plant employees were laid off last year and another 850 workers in the cell phone and two-way radio distribution center will lose their jobs. Four hundred other employees will be offered positions at the company's other Chicago-area facilities. A Motorola spokeswoman said the company decided to close the facility because it was not close enough to customers. It was never meant to be the distribution facility it turned into. When the plant opened in 1997, it was supposed to be a world-class manufacturing plant. Motorola at the time was the No. 1 cell phone maker and could not keep up with demand.