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When it comes to manufacturing diversity, Chicago remains king. No one sector provides more than 14.5% of the region's 660,000 manufacturing jobs, and 11 different industries provide at least 3%. The top four -- electronics, industrial machinery, fabricated metals, and printing and publishing -- account for less than half of the jobs.
Exactly how many workers it takes to make the 4.6 billion Oreo cookies produced annually in Nabisco Biscuit Co.'s cookie and bakery plant is not known. But almost one of every six food-processing employees in the U.S. works in the Chicago area. It's the second-biggest -- and most diverse -- manufacturing complex in the U.S. Still 30% of manufacturing jobs in rubber, metals, machinery, electronics, and instruments are tied to the auto industry."
Industry Week - April 3, 2000
In 1999 Industry Week ranked the Chicago-Cook metro area as the No. 1 gold-medal World-Class community for manufacturing out of 315 U.S. metropolitan areas.
"With its diverse mix of industries and support services, the Chicago metro area is the best U.S. community for manufacturing. It has six industries - industrial machinery, fabricated metals, food, electronics and electrical equipment, printing and publishing, and rubber and plastics - that each employ between 48,000 and 82,000 workers. What's more, 15 of the area's 25 largest employers are manufacturers - in industries encompassing oil and gas, steel, food, health-care products, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and electronics.
The Chicago metro area ranks No. 1 in the U.S. in its share of gross domestic product from manufacturing and had the second-largest dollar increase in manufacturing gross metropolitan product from 1993 to 1996."
Industry Week - April 5, 1999
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