Illinois Fortune 500 Companies Dot Every Part of the State
Illinois is home to 32 Fortune 500 companies, including globally known brands such as Allstate, McDonald's, Boeing, Motorola, Kraft Foods and Walgreens.
If you can judge a state by the companies it keeps, Illinois should certainly be held in the highest regard.
The Fortune 500, the annual ranking of the largest publicly traded companies based in the United States, includes 32 companies that call Illinois home.
The list includes globally known heavyweights across the spectrum of commerce, from aerospace (Boeing) to airlines (UnitedContinental Holdings), industrial machinery (Illinois Tool Works and Dover), printing (R.R. Donnelly & Sons) and telecommunications (Telephone & Data Systems).
Combined, the Illinois-based companies on the Fortune 500 accounted for a staggering $831 billion in revenue in 2013.
Chicago is truly a global business location, and the companies on the Fortune 500 that are based there underscore that. Boeing chose Chicago as its new headquarters location in 2001 after an extensive site search, in part because of its location and access to airports offering extensive international flights.
Beyond Chicago and the Chicagoland region Fortune 500 companies can be found in every corner of Illinois – from Moline (Deere) to Peoria (Caterpillar) to Bloomington (State Farm).
Illinois 2013 Fortune 500 companies
Here is a list of Fortune 500 companies based in Illinois, their rank on the 2013 list and their 2013 revenue:
Archer Daniels Midland (27): $89 billion
Boeing (30): $81.7 billion
Walgreens (37): $71.6 billion
Caterpillar (42): $65.9 billion
State Farm Insurance Cos. (44): $65.3 billion
Abbott Laboratories (70): $39.9 billion
Sears Holdings (71): $39.9 billion
United Continental Holdings (79): $37.2 billion
Deere (85): $36.2 billion
Mondelez International (88): $35 billion
Allstate (92): $33.3 billion
McDonald’s (111): $27.6 billion
Exelon (129): $23.5 billion
Kraft Foods Group (151): $18.3 billion
Illinois Tool Works (155): $18.1 billion
Baxter International (193): $14.2 billion
Navistar International (216): $12.9 billion
R.R. Donnelley & Sons (264): $10.2 billion
CDW (267): $10.1 billion
Hillshire Brands (288): $9.3 billion
Discover Financial Services (294): $9 billion
W.W. Grainger (295): $9 billion
Motorola Solutions (304): $8.7 billion
Dover (308): 8.5 billion
Tenneco (349): $7.4 billion
OfficeMax (367): $6.9 billion
Ingredion (386): $6.5 billion
Anixter International (405): $6.3 billion
CF Industries Holdings (419): $61. billion
Telephone Data & Systems (468): $5.3 billion
United Stationers (484): $5.1 billion
Old Republic International (496): $5 billion