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June 28, 2016

June 13, 2016

This ChiTrib Columnist Likes the Move to Chicago

There's some fun history here about the original move to Oak Brook and design of 
the new 1971 office.

McDonald's returning to Chicago because 20 miles away risks being out of it
.

Oak Brook Confirms Move Into Chicago

In 1998 McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg reorganized the seven domestic "Zones"
into five Divisions claiming the move would put management "closer to our customers".
Trouble was, most of the new divisional offices were scattered around Chicagoland.

Today's press release says the move to Chicago will "drive business momentum by 
getting us even closer to our customers".

The only customers McDonald's Corp. will be closer to will be the homeless people
who populate the restrooms in The Loop restaurants.

"McDonald's, welcome back to sweet home Chicago," Mayor Rahm Emanuel
.