John McQuade, vice president of manufacturing operations for Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. speaks during a news conference at the Decatur, Ill. plant. The tire company announced yesterday it will close ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced Tuesday that it will close the Decatur, Ill., plant where most of its recalled tires were made. The tire maker sent a six-month notice of its ...

DETROIT — Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. said Wednesday that it will close its tire factory in Decatur, Ill., which was the main source of defective tires involved in last year’s extensive recall.

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- A dark cloud of labor strife that has hung over this blue-collar industrial city for years got a little thicker with the news that Bridgestone/Firestone will close its plant here ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Top elected officials in Illinois are getting involved in efforts to save Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.'s Decatur, Ill., tire manufacturing facility, which the company has marked for ...

Jonathan Ahl of member station WCBU reports on this week's announcement by Bridgestone-Firestone that it will shut down its tire manufacturing plant in Decatur , Illinois. The move will put 15-hundred ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27 -- Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., Wednesday said it plans to close its 59-year-old manufacturing facility in Decatur, Ill., the plant that made most of the 6.5 million tires ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- It's time to move on. Local, state and federal lawmakers emerged with that message after meeting with Bridgestone/Firestone officials Monday, who did not back down from plans ...

This Central Illinois factory town has seen heated labor strikes and strife in its schools, but the latest problem to bring notoriety is in some ways more stinging. Since nearly 3 million tires ...

ByBridgeNews Citing slower demand and excess tire production in the United States, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. says it may shut down its Decatur, Ill., plant, which employs 1,500 workers, by the end of ...