Peoria-based Caterpillar Inc. manufacturing company will relocate 1,400 jobs from Japan, but the jobs won't come to Peoria or the multiple other Illinois locales that tried to secure the plant. The company wrote a letter to Peoria County lamenting "the business climate and overall fiscal health of the state of Illinois."

Gov. Pat Quinn contends that the decision mostly had to do with Illinois lacking port/ocean access. Caterpillar mentioned the lack of port access in their letter as one in a list of factors.

The plant is now expected to be built near Caterpillar's division headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.