The following companies have headquarters within the Chicago city limits:
* Accenture
* Aon Corporation (Ranked #199 on the Fortune 500)
* Bally Total Fitness
* Boeing (Ranked #21 on the Fortune 500)
* CareerBuilder
* Chicago Board of Trade (pending merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange to form CME group).
* Chicago Board Options Exchange
* Chicago Mercantile Exchange
* Chicago Stock Exchange
* Citadel Investment Group
* Click Commerce
* CNA Financial (an affiliate of Loews Corporation)
* Cobra Electronics
* Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
* Equity Office Properties Trust (Ranked #493 on the Fortune 500)
* Equity Residential Properties Trust
* Exelon Corporation (Ranked #126 on the Fortune 500)
* Falcon Living
* Fellowes
* GATX Corporation
* General Growth Properties
* Global Hyatt Corporation
* Hostway
* Integrys Energy Group, Inc.
* Jones Lang LaSalle
* Kerasotes Theatres
* Metal Management
* Midway Games
* Morton Salt
* National Stock Exchange
* NAVTEQ
* Northern Trust
* Old Republic International (Ranked #491 on the Fortune 500)
* Orbitz
* Playboy Enterprises
* Potbelly Sandwich Works
* Quaker Oats Company, a unit of PepsiCo
* R.R. Donnelley & Sons (Ranked #362 on the Fortune 500)
* Ryerson, Inc.
* Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
* Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (Ranked #255 on the Fortune 500)
* SSA Global Technologies
* Telephone and Data Systems Incorporated
* Tootsie Roll Industries
* Tribune Company (Ranked #323 on the Fortune 500)
* True Value
* US Cellular
* USG Corporation (Ranked #458 on the Fortune 500)
* Unitrin (S&P 400 MidCap, S&P 1500 Super Comp)
* Whittman-Hart
* World Book
* WM. Wrigley Jr. Company
The following companies are based in Chicago's suburbs:
* Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* ACCO Brands (Lincolnshire, Illinois)
* Ace Hardware (Oak Brook, Illinois)
* ACNielsen (Schaumburg, Illinois)
* Allstate (Northbrook, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Andrew Corporation (Westchester, Illinois)
* Anixter International (Glenview, Illinois)
* Azteca Foods (Summit, Illinois)
* Baxter International (Deerfield, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* BFG Technologies (Lake Forest, Illinois)
* Brunswick Corporation (Lake Forest, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Calamos Holdings LLC (Naperville, Illinois)
* Career Education Corporation (Hoffman Estates, Illinois)
* CDW (Vernon Hills, Illinois) (Ranked #376 on the Fortune 500)
* Corn Products International (Westchester, Illinois)
* Così (Deerfield, Illinois)
* Crate and Barrel (Northbrook, Illinois)
* Dade Behring (Deerfield, Illinois)
* DeVry University (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)
* Discover Card (Riverwoods, Illinois; a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley until September 2007)
* Donlen Corporation (Northbrook, Illinois)
* Electro-Motive Diesel (McCook, Illinois)
* Fortune Brands (Jim Beam, Courvoisier, Titleist, and many other brands) (Lincolnshire, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Hendrickson Int'l Corp. (Lemont, Illinois; a subsidiary of The Boler Company (Itasca, Illinois))
* Hewitt Associates (Lincolnshire, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Hospira (Lake Forest, Illinois)
* Illinois Tool Works (Glenview, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Kraft Foods (Northfield, Illinois)
* Laidlaw (Naperville, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* McDonald's Corporation (Oak Brook, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Molex (Lisle, Illinois)
* Motorola (Schaumburg, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Nalco Holding Company (Naperville, Illinois)
* Namco Cybertainment (Bensenville, Illinois; a subsidiary of Japan-based Namco)
* Navistar International Corporation (Warrenville, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Nicor (Naperville, Illinois) (S&P 500)
* NiSource (Merrillville, Indiana) (Fortune 500)
* Northfield Laboratories (Evanston, Illinois)
* OfficeMax (Naperville, Illinois)
* Pactiv (Lake Forest, Illinois)
* Portillo's Restaurants (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)
* Rand McNally (Skokie, Illinois), a subsidiary of Quebecor World
* Redbox Automated Retail, LLC (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)
* Salton Inc. (Lake Forest, Illinois)
* Sanford (Oak Brook, Illinois; a division of Newell Rubbermaid)
* Sara Lee (Downers Grove, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Sears Holdings (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* ServiceMaster (Downers Grove, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Shure Incorporated (Niles, Illinois)
* Solo Cup Company (Highland Park, Illinois)
* Stepan Company (Northfield, Illinois; NYSE: SCL)
* TAP Pharmaceuticals (Lake Forest, Illinois)
* Tellabs (Naperville, Illinois)
The Chicago area, a center of global transportation, serves as the headquarters for airline manufacturer Boeing, commercial airline United Airlines, and a number of major trucking companies.
The Chicago area, a center of global transportation, serves as the headquarters for airline manufacturer Boeing, commercial airline United Airlines, and a number of major trucking companies.
* Tenneco (Lake Forest, IL) (Fortune 500)
* Turtle Wax (Willowbrook, Illinois)
* Underwriters Laboratories (Northbrook, Illinois)
* United Airlines (Elk Grove Village, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* United Stationers (Des Plaines, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* USRobotics (Schaumburg, Illinois)
* Vanee Foods Company, Inc. (Berkeley, Illinois)
* Van Kampen Investments (Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois)
* Walgreens (Deerfield, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Westell (Aurora, Illinois)
* WMS Gaming (Waukegan, Illinois)
* World Dryer (Berkeley, Illinois; a subsidiary of Carrier Commercial Refrigeration)
* W.W. Grainger (Lake Forest, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* Zebra Technologies (Vernon Hills, Illinois)
* Zenith Electronics Corporation (Lincolnshire, Illinois; a subsidiary of South Korea-based LG Electronics)
There are other large corporations with an established presence in Chicago and/or its suburbs (but whose corporate headquarters are located elsewhere), including:
* ABN AMRO (LaSalle Bank division)
* Acxiom (Downers Grove, Illinois)
* ACS (Schaumburg, Illinois) (Fortune 500)
* ALDI (U.S. headquarters: Batavia, Illinois)
* Akzo Nobel (Polymer Chemicals Unit)
* Astellas Pharma (Deerfield, Illinois)
* AT&T
* BP (Warrenville, Illinois)
* Caterpillar Inc. (Montgomery, Illinois)
* ConAgra (Downers Grove, Illinois)
* Continental Automotive Systems (Temic) (Deer Park, Illinois)
* CSX Transportation (Northern Region Operations Center) (Calumet City, Illinois)
* FANUC Robotics (Hoffman Estates, Illinois)
* Fitch Ratings
* Ford Motor Company (Chicago Assembly, Chicago Heights Stamping)
* GE
* Goldman Sachs
* HSBC Finance, a subsidiary of HSBC (Prospect Heights, Illinois)
* IBM
* JPMorgan Chase & Co. (See: Bank One)
* Lucent Technologies
* McKesson (Wheeling, Illinois)
* McGraw-Hill Companies (Chicago Loop)
* Microsoft Corporation (Chicago Loop; Downers Grove, Illinois)
* Mintel
* Mitsubishi Electric (Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.) (Vernon Hills, Illinois)
* Mittal Steel Company (U.S. headquarters: Chicago Loop; plants in Riverdale, Illinois, East Chicago, Indiana, and Burns Harbor, Indiana)
* NEC (NEC Display Solutions of America) (Itasca, Illinois)
* Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (Rolling Meadows, Illinois)
* Omron (Schaumburg, Bannockburn, St. Charles)
* Panasonic Corporation of North America (Panasonic Factory Solutions Company of America) (Buffalo Grove, Illinois)
* Pearson Education, publishing as Scott Foresman (Glenview, Illinois)
* PepsiAmericas (corporate offices) (Schaumburg, Illinois)
* Popular, Inc. (Banco Popular North America) (Rosemont, Illinois)
* Rexam
* Robert Bosch Corp. (Broadview, Illinois; Mount Prospect, Illinois)
* SAP AG (Westchester, Illinois)
* Schneider Electric (Palatine, Illinois)
* Siemens Medical Solutions (Hoffman Estates, Illinois)
* STMicroelectronics (Schaumburg, Illinois)
* Takeda Pharmaceutical Company (U.S. headquarters: Deerfield, Illinois)
* Teradyne (Broadband Test Division) (Deerfield, Illinois)
* UBS AG
* Unilever (Home & Personal Care North America) (Chicago)
* UPS (CACH) (Hodgkins, Illinois)
* UOP LLC, a subsidiary of Honeywell (Des Plaines, Illinois)
* Yaskawa Electric America (Waukegan, Illinois)
* ZF Friedrichshafen (Vernon Hills, Illinois)
* Zurich Financial Services (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
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