An Illinois town celebrates as Trump's tariffs prompt US Steel to bring jobs back
GRANITE CITY, Ill. - There's hope coming back to Granite City.
The small Illinois steel town outside St. Louis felt the bedrock shift in 2015 when one of its biggest and best-paying employers, U.S. Steel, said it would idle its Granite City plant and cut 2,000 jobs. On Wednesday, the company said it will restart one of two blast furnaces - where the steelmaking process begins - next month.
U.S. Steel announced the move, which will involve calling back about 500 employees, just a day before President Donald Trump's Thursday action to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum
