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Illinois Steel Furnace to Reopen, Bringing 400 Jobs and Renewed Hope for Recovery

Summary by discernmoney.com
A blast furnace in Granite City, Illinois, shut down for years and left for dead, is about to roar back to life in 2026. U.S. Steel just announced it will restart the idled furnace at its Granite City Works plant and hire 400 American workers to run it. In a country that has watched its steel industry shrink from 140 operating blast furnaces in the 1970s to just 12 today, this single restart is a big deal, and it is a direct payoff from Presiden…
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discernmoney.com broke the news in on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
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