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Originally Posted by JManc
Corporations don't want office towers. They want the campuses and are moving out of downtown skyscrapers left and right.
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Did you you just step out of a time machine from the 1990s?
The trend over the past decade or so in Chicagoland is 100% the exact opposite of that.
I mean, just last year McDonalds (fucking McDonalds, the goddamn alpha symbol of postwar suburban sprawl) announced they were moving their global HQ from suburban oak brook to chicago's west loop neighborhood. Their new downtown HQ is under construction right now.
And Google's Chicago office has also recently relocated in chicago's west loop neighborhood.
here's a list of chicagoland companies that have recently made the HQ move downtown from the burbs, or at least opened satellite offices downtown to attract young talent.
Company
Aon Corp.
Aryzta LLC
Assurance Agency Ltd.
AT&T
Bel Brands
BP Trading
Capital One Financial Group
Careerbuilder.com
Checkfree Electronic Commerce (dba Fiserv)
Chicago Office Technology Group
ConAgra
Flor
Gibbs & Soell
Gogo
Guggenheim
HealthSpring
IDEO
IfByPhone Inc.
Insight Global
John Crane Inc.
Legal & General Investment Management America
Maximus
McDonald's
Mead Johnson
Medix
Medline
Monitor Liability Managers (Berkley Insurance Co.)
Motorola Mobility
Motorola Solutions
Nokia Xpress Internet Service
OpinionLab
Presence Health
Reznick Group
Sara Lee
Sawdust Investments
SCOR
Silliker
SIM Partners
Spins
Stats
Sterling Partners
The Marketing Store
Thomson Reuters
Transystem Corp.
UHC
United Airlines
University Health Systems Consortium
Veolia
Walgreens
Warrantry Group
Willis Group Holdings
source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...htmlstory.html