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Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV (French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-]), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is an American oilfield services company. [3][4] As of 2022, it is both the world's largest offshore drilling company and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor by revenue. [5]
Schaumburg (/ ˈʃɔːmbɜːrɡ / SHAWM-burg) is a village located mostly in Cook County and partly in DuPage County in northeastern Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 78,723, making Schaumburg the most populous incorporated village in the United States. [3] Schaumburg is around 28 miles (45 km) northwest of the ...
South Works. Coordinates: 41°44′30″N 87°32′0″W. South Works is an area in the South Chicago part of Chicago, Illinois, near the mouth of the Calumet River, that was previously home to a now-closed and vacant US Steel manufacturing plant. The area is called "South Works" because that was the name of the now-shuttered steel plant.
The total economic output of Chicago in gross metropolitan product totaled US$770.7 billion in 2020, [1][2] surpassing the total economic output of Switzerland and making Chicago's gross metropolitan product (GMP) the third largest in the United States, The city is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Archer Daniels Midland, Conagra ...
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
The Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building. While the building was originally going to be called "One Park Place," it opened as The Associates Center, named ...
Chicago had the highest inflation rate of all metro areas included in the BLS' report for August, coming in at 3.8% – just ahead of the New York City area's 3.7% inflation rate. Detroit's ...
Sullivan Center. The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, [ 4 ] is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. Louis Sullivan designed it for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer in 1899 and later ...