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GE Transportation moving headquarters to Chicago
The policitco’s say Illinois business climate is bad??
Well if the business climate in Illinois were really good they’d move the locomotive plant here too.
In the age of computerized everything, why can’t a company’s headquarters be located anywhere they happen to already be? Answer: They easily could have stayed in Erie!
GE (and Boeing) must think the benefits of Chicago are more than offset by a “negative business climate.”
Caterpillar just gave 2 other states business because of the bad business climate in Ill.Indiana Governer Mitch Daniels said living next to Ill is like being next to The Simpsons
Better air connections for world travel from Chicago than from Buffalo?
Your guess is as good as mine.
My former employer had its headquarters in NYC so they said because they were closer to the financial markets. But they had all their plants and operations in the midwest. The Govenor of Ohio, where they had their largest operations, told them to move to Ohio or he would tax the devil out of them. They moved to Ohio.