Photos: Lion Electric’s new school bus factory in Joliet

Lion Electric brings the prospect of 1,400 jobs and the first new vehicle assembly plant to metropolitan Chicago since 1965. It offers hope that Illinois can put people to work attacking its most significant source of greenhouse gas pollution: tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. The factory employs 200 people and is assembling one bus a day. In a few years, if all goes as planned, it could be building up to 80 buses a day, according to Eric Pansegrau, the general manager.