By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press April 17, 2012 2:34PM
Concrete manufacturer Lafarge North America will relocate its headquarters to Illinois from Virginia, a move that is expected to create around 100 jobs, officials announced Tuesday.
The company, headquartered in Reston, Va., already has a presence in Illinois with a facility on Chicago’s South Side and about 300 employees statewide. The relocation would move its administrative offices and create around 90 jobs in the first two years. Company officials haven’t determined a timeline for the move or the exact location but said the new headquarters would be near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Notice Mr. Stull very diplomatically did not mention ". . . and no outrageous future tolls for our employees," although the nearby Tri-State Tollway does have tolls. And, indeed, the Chicago area already has a robust, paid-for transportation infrastructure.“The location and all of the infrastructure this area offers is very important: the airport, the trains, the rivers, the lakes, the roads,” John Stull, a CEO for Larfarge’s cement and aggregate concrete operations, said at a news conference. . . .
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