Concerned Citizens of Manteno/No Gotion Illinois (not for profit) was formed in opposition to Gotion’s $2 billion electric vehicle (EV) lithium battery manufacturing plant, which is slated to be located at 333 Spruce Street, Manteno, formerly the Kmart warehouse. We are represented by the Eckland and Blando law firm which also represents the people fighting the same plant in Michigan and a group that fought and stopped another plant in North Dakota.

Concerned Citizens of Manteno, concerned Michigan and North Dakota residents and a US House committee are questioning the substantial taxpayer funding granted to a company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

We strongly oppose taxpayer-funded subsidies going to any Gotion plant. $8,000,000,000 has been promised by the federal government, Governor Pritzker, Manteno Mayor Tim Nugent and Kankakee County Board Chairman Andy Wheeler, along with his county board members.

The human health risk to Manteno residents that a lithium battery plant poses and the hundreds of trucks carrying all the chemicals that will be needed daily is also of great concern to the Concerned Citizens of Manteno.