With 250 corporate headquarters, including 29 Fortune 500, and 1,500 foreign firms that thrive here, Chicago is THE place for business. Our diverse economy is fertile ground for the success of innovative start-ups, multi-national operations, and manufacturing powerhouses alike.
Successes
Motorola Solutions recently confirmed plans to move its North American headquarters to downtown Chicago.
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.
