Tyson Foods moves corporate jobs to Arkansas in latest blow to Chicago.
Tyson Foods Inc is joining other corporate heavyweights in moving jobs out of Illinois.
The biggest U.S. meat company by sales said on Wednesday it will relocate all corporate employees from offices in Chicago and suburban Downers Grove, along with those in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, to its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.
It is the latest shakeup for Tyson, which has around 1,000 employees in its Chicago-area and South Dakota offices. The meat company has about 120,000 U.S. employees, with about 114,000 of them working in production plants.
The decision of Tyson is a blow to Chicago's business community after Citadel said in June it was moving its global headquarters from the city to Miami. Boeing will relocate its headquarters from Chicago this year to Arlington, Virginia, and Caterpillar announced plans to relocate to Texas from a Chicago suburb.