Success Stories in Technology (Info, Bio, Green)
To accomodate growth, creative tech company, Threadless will move to a combined 45,000 sq.ft. HQ/warehousing facility in Chicago’s West Loop.
Thousands of the world’s top scientific minds and leaders wrapped around Chicago this week for the annual BIO International Convention (BIO2010), returning once again after a hugely successful event in 2006.
Life science company, Sword Diagnostics, Inc., recently relocated its corporate headquarters and research facilities to downtown Chicago to accommodate planned growth, doubling the size of its previous space.
Therapeutic Proteins Inc. (TPI), recently relocated to a new manufacturing facility at IIT's University Technology Park, bringing 40 jobs to Chicago.
The entrepreneurs behind Groupon, MediaBank, InnerWorkings andEcho Global Logistics have already raised over $150 million and generated more than $1.5 billion in investor returns through their existing ventures.
Deerfield-based Walgreens opened its first downtown Chicago office, with 65 of its e-commerce department employees locating at the historic Sullivan Center, 1 S. State St.
Google is not typically associated with Chicago, but its Midwest headquarters in Chicago has become a critical hub. What had started as a two-person office run out of a Lincoln Park apartment has grown into a 500-person operation, functioning out of a state-of-the-art facility at 20 W. Kinzie Street.
WBC worked with the City and State to retain the headquarters of the world’s leading internet recruitment site, CareerBuilder LLC (“CareerBuilder).” The Chicago-based company has 25 locations and more than 2,200 employees nationwide, in addition to several international locations.
