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Maytag used to have a refrigerator manufacturing facility in Galesburg, which moved to Mexico around the turn of the aughts, and incurred a loss of thousands of jobs. Usual NAFTA hollowing out of middle America story.

Can’t be a strong town when you’re a dying town.

https://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/2015/mar/galesburg-after...