More than a dozen Illinois companies made the Fortune Global 500 list for 2016.
Fortune's annual list ranks the world's largest companies, and this year a total of 14 firms in Illinois were included. It's an improvement from the 12 spots the state held in 2015.
The world's largest corporations span 226 cities in 33 countries, according to the Fortune, with 134 of them found in the United States.
Fortune's Global 500 deemed the following Illinois companies to be among the biggest powerhouses in the global workforce:
Walgreens Boots Alliance (#47 - Deerfield): $103,444
Boeing (#61 - Chicago): $96,114
State Farm (#93 - Bloomington): $75,967
Archer Daniels Midland (#112 - Chicago): $67,702
Caterpillar (#194 - Peoria): $47,011
United Continental Holdings (#265 - Chicago): $37,864
Allstate (#283 Northbrook): $35,653
Mondelez International (#352 - Deerfield): $29,636
Exelon (#355 - Chicago): $29,447
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Deere (#364 - Moline): $28,863
McDonald’s (#420 - Oak Brook): $25,413
Sears (#425 - Hoffman Estates): $25,146
US Foods Holding (#461 - Rosemont): $23,128
AbbVie (#469 - North Chicago): $22,859
Illinois also held 14 spots in Forbes' list of the largest private companies in the nation.
Those included in the ranking limited to the United States included: Reyes Holding (#12 - Rosemont); Medline Industries (#47 - Mundelein); OSI Group (#58 - Aurora); Dot Foods (#65 - Mt. Sterling); Eby-Brown (#72 - Naperville); Flex-N-Gate (#73 - Mundelein); Amsted Industries (#75 - Chicago); Walsh Group (#83 - Chicago); Koch Foods (#142 - Park Ridge); Follett (#178 - Westchester); Signode Industrial Group (#182 – Glenview); Heico (#190 - Chicago); Kirkland & Ellis (#197 - Chicago); and JMC Steel (#217 - Chicago).
