Mr. Betts and senior executives have been traveling back and forth to the Belvidere, Ill.
Let's go next to - this is Brian(ph), Brian with us from Belvidere in Illinois.
When Chrysler slipped into bankruptcy in 2009, all but a couple hundred Belvidere workers were laid off.
Earlier this month, Dairy Queen International opened its first combined DQ Orange Julius store in Belvidere, Ill.
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With its overall sales rising, Chrysler is adding a third shift at Belvidere, putting the plant on round-the-clock production.
In Belvidere, where we build two Jeep models, we have added two shifts since 2009 resulting in an additional 2, 600 jobs.
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When he got a call from Chrysler about jobs in Belvidere, he jumped on a bus with a backpack and a pillow.
"It's the same thing as people who own Ferraris and Lamborghinis, " says Bob Rubino, owner of Mil-Spec Vehicle Restorations in Belvidere, N.
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The next day it announced it would hire 1, 800 people at a plant in Belvidere, Illinois, to build its new Dodge Dart.
It seems as though IDT, a company in Belvidere, Illinois, had been asked to bid on a contract to make protective barriers for troops.
With new workers streaming back to Belvidere, sales are increasing, but she still isn't at the level where she is earning a paycheck from the 70-hour weeks she puts in.
Selling more Jeeps in China will help bolster the Jeep brand globally, making its parent stronger, which can only help secure jobs at the Jeep factories in Detroit, Toledo, Ohio, and Belvidere, Ill.
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So one of the issues for Belvidere has been hiring of temporary workers because that has been a lot cheaper for Chrysler, which is now under Fiat's control, rather than hire people in full time.
The Dart takeoff would seem to be an answer to critics, notably the Wall Street Journal, who lately have faulted Chrysler for oversubscribing the proportion of early Darts that rolled off the assembly line in Belvidere, Ill.
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Ed Marx, who worked at the Chrysler plant in the 1960s and now owns retail space in downtown Belvidere, said he is holding a number of his empty storefronts from the market because he knows the interest isn't there yet.
The plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which produces the slow-selling Neon, seemed a sure bet to be shuttered, but Chrysler inadvertently outsmarted itself two years ago, when it agreed to restrictions on plant shutdowns as part of its contract with the United Auto Workers union.
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