List of major companies in Chicagoland
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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
- Jones Lang LaSalle
- Kerasotes Theatres
- Midway Games
- Morton Salt
- National Stock Exchange
- NAVTEQ
- Northern Trust
- Old Republic International (Ranked #491 on the Fortune 500)
- Orbitz
- Peoples Energy (S&P 500)
- Playboy Enterprises
- Potbelly Sandwich Works
- Quaker Oats Company, a unit of PepsiCo
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons (Ranked #362 on the Fortune 500)
- Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation (Ranked #255 on the Fortune 500)
- SSA Global Technologies
- Telephone and Data Systems Incorporated (Ranked #480 on the Fortune 500)
- 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
- 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 (Northfield, Illinois; NYSE: SCL)
- TAP Pharmaceuticals (Lake Forest, Illinois)
- Tellabs (Naperville, Illinois)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Microsoft Corporation (Chicago Loop; Downers Grove, Illinois)
- 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)
- Yaskawa Electric America (Waukegan, Illinois)
- ZF Friedrichshafen (Vernon Hills, Illinois)
- Zurich Financial Services (Schaumburg, Illinois)
