I found this today:
_____________________________ City of Chicago's Top Employers Rank Name Employees 1. U.S. Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,000 2. Chicago Public Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,798 3. City of Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,911 4. Jewel-Osco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,954 5. Cook County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,081 6. U.S. Postal Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,800 7. State of Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,465 8. Ameritech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 9. Bank One Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,750 10. Archdiocese of Chicago. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,245 11. University of Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,965 12. American Airlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,670 13. University of Illinois at Chicago . . . . . . . 12,754 14. Chicago Transit Authority . . . . . . . . . . . 10,468 15. Exelon Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,245 16. ABN AMRO Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,054 17. Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke Medical Center. . . . 8,637 18. AT&T Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000 19. Loyola University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,200 20. Harris Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,193 21. Northern Trust Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,160 22. Tribune Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,069 23. Anderson Consulting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,986 24. Arthur Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,212 SOURCE: Crain's Chicago Business, April 16, 2001 ___________________________________________ Now, we can knock Anderson off the bottom of this list as of 2002, but it still strikes me that 6 out of the 7 largest employers are funded by our tax dollars. Hell, why not just make everyone a government employee if it's such a good idea. |
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