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This is a list of companies in the Chicago metropolitan area.The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
In 1958, it became owned by American Potash and Chemical Company (AMPOT), [11] which at one point had a 'Lindsay Chemical Division.' [4] In 1967, AMPOT, and thus the facility, were bought by Kerr-McGee. The Rare Earths Facility were closed by Kerr-McGee in 1973.
H. C. Evans & Company of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of casino equipment and supplies - both honest and crooked - in the United States. It was established in 1892 and collapsed in 1955. It was established in 1892 and collapsed in 1955.
The Heyworth Building is a Chicago Landmark located at 29 East Madison Street, on the southwest corner of Madison Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.. The building was constructed in 1904 by the architectural firm of D. H. Burnham & Company under the commission of Otto Young, a real estate investor and wholesale jeweler.
CFS Continental, Inc. was a wholesale food distributor started in 1915 by Jacob Cohn (1894–1968) in Chicago as the Continental Coffee Company. It is now part of Sysco.
GTCR logo in use prior to 1998 separation. The company was founded in 1980 as Golder Thoma & Co. by Stanley Golder, Carl Thoma, and Bryan Cressey. [2] In the 1970s, Golder built the private equity program at First Chicago Corp. [3] where he is noted primarily for backing Federal Express and for efforts as chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and the National Association of ...
The Lincoln Park location was Chicago's oldest steel mill. [3] In 2006, it bought the site of the former Verson Steel on Chicago's South Side. [4] It was purchased by a German company in 2008, and has since operated from that location. [5] Since the demolition, there have been various proposals to connect the site to the popular Bloomingdale Trail.