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Another OT comment(based on above). If fuel prices remain as high as they are or go higher, I think a lot of airline traffic and almost all long haul trucking are doomed. The economics(vs trains) just makes no sense. Of course a decent passenger train system will need to be put in place(as it already is in a few parts of the US) to replace the airlines.
On topic-I have several Motorolas from the plant also. It is nice to know where they were made. I used to work for Motorola. and would have liked to have visited their museum in Chicago-but never got to. With all of their recent financial troubles, I am not sure if it is still open.
From reading this forum and from other sources, I get the impression that Chicago and the northeast US used be home to most US electronic manufacturing, but no more. What electronic manufacturing that is left (other than IBM in New York) is in the south and west. I say this as I work in the semiconductor industry and the remaining US fabs that I am aware of (other than IBM) are in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, and California. Of courrse, I am most familiar with semconductor manufacturing, others might have a different view.
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