Janesville Manufacturing Jobs Reduced To A Memory

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It's beginning to look like Janesville no longer exists in a vacuum. A headstone memorializing the closing of a plant formerly known as Gilman Engineering sits in the front terrace of a parking lot across the street from the Thyssen Krupp building on Delavan Drive in Janesville.

JG Excerpt:
ThyssenKrupp, the local manufacturer best known in Janesville as Gilman, announced in May that it would close the plant and eliminate more than 160 jobs.

Gilman Memorial
This can't be a good sign. Before headstones like these start popping up all over Janesville, the city administration better get right on it with a new ordinance addressing the height, size, placement, material and mounting system utilized for keeping them properly anchored.

Below, is a photoshopped tombstone on which I took the liberty to write the epitaph for the Janesville GM factory.