Caterpillar Moving Headquarters From Chicago To Texas

Lots of companies have moved their world HQ here. Many moved to the city I work in . I never expected this big migration but I am glad I got on board with it early . It ha been nothing short of amazing for me professionally. Our Governor works very hard to attract businesses to move to Texas . On top of no state income tax , Texas still gives some property tax abatements . Then Texas still upholds the constitution, does not do the covid mandate crap, and is fighting lib influence in our schools

How terribly unwoke of Caterpillar! 😳

It’s a huge deal. Cat was always a bellwether to a healthy economy. This is very telling.

Caterpillar is a global giant in construction and mining equipment. They employ people all over the world. The Ceo has been very vocally unsatisfied with Illinois for about a decade. It's been impossible to expand business there despite wanting too. It is a business loss for Illinois.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be a dick about it. I can understand celebrating gaining Caterpillar, but... Do you kick at anything/everything that's blue?

To my knowledge, Caterpillar's headquarters was based in Deerfield which is in a very safe neighborhood. Chicago does have a gun violence problem but it's mostly in 12-15 neighborhoods that are warzones out of the seventy or eighty something neighborhoods. Most places in Chicago are as safe as any other city. Chicago has been expanding violence prevention programs in the high risk areas which has dropped gun violence by 40 -50 percent where it's been very focussed on a couple neighborhoods for example.

Btw, Caterpillar is only moving their headquarters which is only hundreds of workers to Texas. So you haven't gained much yet. Perhaps sometime in the future they'll start some factories there as well. And will likely shift workers around to other states like they have done in the past. But they aren't moving the 20000 workers in Illinois or firing them either.

All of 207 employees will be affected. They are moving to an existing texas facility.
The majority of caterpillars work force will still be in Illinois.
Wow! Big news there, bud🙄

Whoa.....that's huge.

You’d think the residents of some of these liberal hell holes would investigate how the same people keep getting voted into office

They just moved from Peoria to Chicago a few years ago. They are trying to get away from that super democrat/union state just like many other businesses. Illinois is horrible on taxes. I have many relatives and friends (myself included) that left for better pastures. Illinois sucks!