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Motorola Phones

NPR

Published January 15, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

David Shaper of member station WBEZ in Chicago reports that Motorola is halting cellular-phone manufacturing at its plant in Harvard, Illinois, and laying off about 2,500 workers.