Top publicly traded companies in Illinois according to revenues with State and U.S. rankings | ||||
State rank | Corporation | US rank | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Archer Daniels Midland | 27 | ||
2 | Boeing | 30 | ||
3 | Walgreen | 37 | ||
4 | Caterpillar Inc. | 42 | ||
5 | State Farm | 44 | ||
6 | Abbott Laboratories | 70 | ||
7 | Sears Holdings | 71 | ||
8 | United Continental | 79 | ||
9 | Deere | 85 | ||
10 | Mondelez International | 88 | ||
11 | Allstate | 92 | ||
12 | McDonald's | 111 | ||
13 | Exelon | 129 | ||
14 | Kraft Foods | 151 | ||
15 | IL Tool Works | 155 | ||
16 | Baxter | 193 | ||
17 | Navistar | 216 | ||
18 | RR Donnelley | 264 | ||
19 | CDW | 267 | ||
20 | Hillshire Brands | 288 | ||
21 | Discover Financial | 294 | ||
22 | W. W. Grainger | 295 | ||
23 | Motorola Solutions | 304 | ||
24 | Dover Corporation | 308 | ||
25 | Tenneco | 349 | ||
26 | OfficeMax | 367 | ||
27 | Ingredion | 386 | ||
28 | Anixter | 405 | ||
29 | CF Industries | 419 | ||
30 | Telephone and Data Systems | 468 | ||
31 | Essendant | 484 | ||
32 | Old Republic International | 496 | ||
Source: Fortune 500 2013 [1] |
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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