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I'm vaguely batting around an idea of trying to boost Chicago over our timeline and one idea I had was for the city to have an automobile company based in it or right next to it in a neighbouring town, it being good for both income and blue collar jobs. So where do people think the best place to locate it would be? My initial thoughts were somewhere in the Far Southeast Side or possibly Far Southwest Side areas but I know there are some local Chicago and Illinois types lurking around the forum so thought I'd see what people suggested.

Chicago like many cities in the Midwest had several dozen motor companies when the industry was first starting out but most of them only lasted a certain amount of time being closing for business. The general idea so far is that when Thomas Jeffery sells his stake in the bicycle manufacturer Gormully & Jeffery in 1900 to concentrate on cars instead of buying the Sterling Bicycle Company factory up in Kenosha Wisconsin, which he renamed the Thomas B. Jeffery Company after himself, he buys a local Chicago firm. The Thomas B. Jeffery Company is important as sixteen years later former General Motors president Charles W. Nash bought it, it being renamed Nash Motors after its new owner, and then via a merger with Kelvinator formed Nash-Kelvinator before finally acquiring the Hudson Motor Car Company to create American Motors Corporation (AMC). Even throwing in some other companies like Diamond T, International Harvester, Packard-Studebaker, Yellow Cab, Checker Cab, a military side-business etc. means that it would still be a case of the Big Three and then AMC some way behind in fourth place though.
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