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World Business Chicago recently worked with DeVry Inc. to bring its online support office downtown, employing up to 1,000 people over the next three years. See more in the recent Crain's Chicago story.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces The Dow Chemical Company will be relocating approximately 400 new jobs to Chicago over the next three years.
JMC Steel Group, the country’s largest manufacturer of tubular products, announced its intent to move the company’s corporate headquarters, including 100 new and retained executive positions to Chicago.
Goldwind USA, the world’s fourth-largest wind turbine manufacturer, locates its North American headquarters in Chicago.
The 450,000 square-foot Cinespace Chicago Film Studios facility is on track to become the largest production space in North America outside of Hollywood, and will help make Chicago a world-class film destination with the potential to bring in millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
Steel company will retain more than 300 manufacturing jobs—and the possibility of hundreds more—in Chicago.
Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc. is growing exponentially by doing something that seems very simple: making it easier for healthcare facilities do what they're meant to do—provide healthcare. To get the workforce that the company needs, Accretive has partnered with Chicago Career Tech (CCT) to train the skilled customer service representatives required to handle medical billing and insurance questions that clients may have.
In Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first 100 days in office, 3 major employers have doubled down on Chicago’s economic future, joining the Mayor to announce that they would be bringing 4,000 new jobs to Chicago.
Whirlpool Corporation officials joined city and state leaders at the ribbon-cutting at the new “World of Whirlpool.” The state-of-the art design center, located in the heart of Chicago, will serve as a destination for designers, trade customers, leaders of the home appliance industry and the media who cover that industry.
Mayor Daley and Ford Motor Company officials recently unveiled Ford’s 2011 Explorer, which will be built at the company’s South Side plant, creating approximately 1,200 new jobs.
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.
In one of Chicago’s largest corporate relocations, United Airlines is moving its operational center, including 2,800 jobs, downtown to the Willis Tower in 2010.
Combined Insurance Co. of America recently announced that it will move from its longtime North Side location at 5050 North Broadway Avenue to 111 East Wacker Drive in the Illinois Center Complex.
In one of 2009's largest office leases, True Value Corporation, a world-leading, member-owned hardware cooperative, decided to keep its corporate headquarters in Chicago at President’s Plaza, 8600 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue.
The joint venture between SABMiller PLC and Molson Coors, has located its headquarters in downtown Chicago, bringing between 300 and 400 executive and management jobs to the City.
The global insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings, announced it would consolidate five offices in the Chicagoland area and move nearly 500 employees into the former Sears Tower at 233 S. Wacker Drive.
In 2009, Serious Materials, Inc. announced that it acquired the Chicago manufacturing plant of the former Republic Windows and Doors, where it will manufacture energy-efficient windows, hiring back the plant's employees into green-collar jobs.
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.
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate, officially opened its first U.S. Chocolate Academy alongside its new North American headquarters at 600 W. Chicago.
Veolia Environnement, the world’s largest environmental services company, has selected Chicago as its new North American headquarters for the company’s four operational groups. The company has signed a 34,500-sq.-ft. lease in Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street) and will occupy one floor overlooking Lake Michigan, downtown, the Gold Coast and Millennium Park in early October 2008.
Aviva plc, the world's fifth largest insurance group, opened offices in Chicago to house its North American executive team functions, one of four regional centers for Aviva's global operations.
Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) recently announced that its headquarters will be relocated to Chicago. The change from Louisville, Kentucky to Chicago took effect at the company’s 2008 annual meeting of shareholders. The Company's Chicago employees will be based in its offices in Chicago's central business district.
NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) relocated its headquarters to Chicago to take advantage of its central location, and attract appropriate talent to its dynamic technology environment.
The Big Ten Network announced in late 2006 that Chicago would be the official location for its studios and business offices. The network will be headquartered in the historic Montgomery Ward building located in Chicago's Near North neighborhood.
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Grubb & Ellis Company moved its offices from Northbrook to 500 W. Monroe, a premier Class A building in Chicago’s financial district; it had moved executives to Northbrook from San Francisco in 1997.
In a sign of the company's growth as a leading technology provider, CDW Corporation consolidated its downtown Chicago offices into one location, naming the building, at 120 S. Riverside Plaza, CDW Plaza.
The Cincinnati-based bank moved its Chicago headquarters from Rolling Meadows to 222 S. Riverside Plaza, just west of the loop, where employees are now working out of the new 1,500-square-foot space. In additon, the company opened a 4,000-square-foot retail bank branch on the ground floor of the building.
Mittal Steel is based in the Netherlands and moved its U.S. headquarters, including 212 management workers into 1 S. Dearborn St., a new 40-story office tower. The employees had been based in Ohio and other cities in the Midwest.
Y-USA decided to keep its headquarters in Chicago, purchasing two adjoining parcels totaling 55,000 square feet at the southeast corner of Harrison and State streets.
Wrigley opened its global innovation center, a 200,000-square-foot office and lab complex in the summer of 2005 on the northern tip of Chicago’s Goose Island. The center houses the company’s research and development, packaging, engineering, regulatory and quality-control departments. The world-class facility serves as the nerve center of the global confectioner's commitment to innovate, diversify and meet the needs of future generations of consumers.
Formerly based in San Francisco, CEO Joe Laughlin moved GNX back to his hometown in 2005 after a successful merger with Worldwide Retail Exchange. Mayor Daley welcomed them to their new headquarters location at 200 W. Monroe Street.
CNA is the 7th largest U.S. commercial insurer and the 14th largest U.S. property & casualty insurer, providing insurance protection to more than 1 million businesses and professionals in the U.S. and internationally. City assistance led to the company’s decision to keep its corporate headquarters downtown.
TTX Company provides railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. The company retained space at 101 N. Wacker after considering a move to suburban Chicago.
Synovate (formerly Market Facts Inc.) is a global market research firm with 77 offices in 46 countries. The company moved its headquarters for the Americas from Arlington Heights to 222 South Riverside in Chicago's central business district. The company leased 85,000 square feet at this location.
In late 2004, Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., based in Deerfield, Illinois, and Yamanouchi Pharma America, Inc., of Paramus, New Jersey, announced a merger of their North American headquarter operations at Fujisawa’s Deerfield headquarters, leasing additional space to accommodate the new operations. The new combined company, named Astellas Pharma US Inc., announced the merger would retain 350 jobs and add 75 more in Deerfield.
Hospira, Inc. was spun off as an independent business by Abbott Laboratories in May, 2004, and established its headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Eurex, a joint venture of Deutsche Boerse AG of Germany and SWX Swiss Exchange of Switzerland, is the world's leading futures and options market for euro denominated derivative instruments. The company established its North American operations in the former Sears Tower (Willis Tower) in Chicago in February, 2004.
Kelman Tavrida Group Ltd. obtained an office lease for their Kelman North America Inc. subsidiary at 200 S. Wacker Drive in late 2003, and began actively staffing the space, its North American Headquarters, in early 2004. The company expanded in 2005 to 4147 N. Ravenswood Ave. in Chicago, and began manufacturing in the U.S. for the first time.
Motorola returned to the city of Chicago, where the company began as Galvin Manufacturing nearly 75 years ago, in a bid to attract hip, young designers.
World Business Chicago assisted C.H. Robinson (CHR) with the retention of over 500 employees and a new facility at 1840 North Marcey St. in Chicago.
Brunswick Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of high-quality products for recreational enthusiasts, relocated their Sales and Marketing corporate office to 200 South Wacker, bringing approximately 100 new jobs to the city.
The British School of Chicago provides British curriculum education for children of all nationalities and is the first British curriculum school in the region. A wholly owned subsidiary of Education Overseas Ltd., the school opened at the former St. Gregory's school at 1643 Bryn Mawr in September 2001, and has sister schools in Washington D.C., Boston, Houston, and Charlotte.
Formed by leading U.S. airlines, Orbitz has grown to be a premier global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products.
After a closely watched site selection process, The Boeing Company announced on May 10, 2001, that it would relocate its world headquarters from Seattle to Chicago.
