John Deere Horicon Works expands yet again to further secure its future

Port Edwards, a village of 1,818 just south of Wisconsin Rapids, saw its paper mill close in 2008, a move that put 500 people out of work. Just north of Wausau, paper production helped create the village of Brokaw in 1900, but in 2011 Wausau Paper shuttered the mill that employed 400.

Janesville has lost General Motors; Manitowoc: Mirro; Eau Claire: Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co.; and Kenosha: American Motors Corp.