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Chicago Wins Prize as Home of Big Carrier
CHICAGO — Mayor Richard M. Daley and other politicians stood with the leaders of United and Continental airlines in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, proudly underscoring plans that the proposed merged airline — to be the largest in the world — will have its headquarters here.
Though no one said so, a thanks (or apology) might have been in order to Elk Grove Township.
Last summer, Chicago officials wooed United’s operations center away from Elk Grove Township, a suburb near O’Hare International Airport, with the promise of about $35 million in incentives, including $10 million in grants. About 2,500 United workers are scheduled to move into one of the city’s most prominent skyscrapers — the Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower — by this fall.
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