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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I counted 60 for the NY MSA, with an additional 9 in Fairfield County, and 2 in Allentown, for a total of 71 in the NY CSA. I used this compilation so not sure who much it differs from the graphic posted by Fortune: https://www.50pros.com/fortune500
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Using your link, I count 31 F500 HQs for Chicagoland.
OP's list says 28.
I wonder where these discrepancies are coming from?
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Most of Texas' Fortune 500 list is dominated by oil & gas, which is a sector made up of companies that were never located in New York (or Chicago, or Detroit, which have lost just as much ground on the list).
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Chicago used to be home to a very big O&G company, Standard Oil of Indiana. They changed their name to "Amoco" in the 80s, and then they later got absorbed into BP, and while there are still a fair number of BP jobs here, along with the HUGE refinery over in Whiting, IN, the combined company is now HQ'ed out of London.
Back when Standard Oil of Indiana was a huge deal, they built this noteworthy edifice for themselves. It was the fourth tallest building on the planet back when it was completed in 1973.
Source: wikipedia