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Originally Posted by killaviews
Chicago is the center of the metropolitan area. These companies in Lake County attract employees from places that are far - the South Side, the South Suburbs, Naperville, Aurora. It is close if you live in the North Shore, but I bet the vast majority of employees working in Lake County don't live in the North Shore. A lot of people will do whatever it takes to have a good job. So now there are thousands of people willing to put up with an awful commute because of a handful of senior executives with mansions on the North Shore.
That's a huge waste of resources.
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Thousands of people? The offices, at least according to what I read, will be a max of about 300 people. This is mostly C-suite, other executives, and operations people moving.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/artic...erfield-for-hq
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The new headquarters should house 100 employees by the end of the year; there will be 300 at the site in mid-2018.
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Cat has an office downtown already in the Merchandise Mart (
http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/bl....google.com%2F) which is full of the more "creative job people" which is where this is more important. If it was moving 3000 people, it would be different, but it's not. This is operations moving and just a few hundred people. It would be great if they were downtown, but after being in Peoria for so long, they still did very well for themselves and I doubt they're too concerned with people not wanting to do business with them because they're in Deerfield instead of the Loop.