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In yet another blow to Illinois’s crumbling economic landscape, Morton Salt, the iconic company behind the blue and yellow umbrella girl and was founded in Chicago, has announced its decision to relocate its headquarters to Overland Park, Kansas.
The move comes as no surprise to those closely monitoring Illinois’s increasingly hostile business climate, which has driven several major corporations to flee the state in recent years.
In 2021, the Chicago Tribune reported, “Morton Salt, the 173-year-old Chicago company recently purchased by a California investment firm, laid off 120 employees at its downtown headquarters… slashing its office staff by 40%.” more
Overland Park Kansas is just Chicago lite….
Illinois is the biggest shit state for running any business of any kind. I look at that turd brain J.B. and wonder how barbaric he can drive the state into complete destruction before these Illinois Demoncrats quit voting for that asshole. Goes to show how munch stupidity lives in Illinois
I am really embarrassed having to live in this Demoncrat run shithole. Might have to sell my farmland to another Chinese owned pig farm.
^^^^^ Also, of you have not smelled the fragrance of a pig farm, you are in a VERY VERY rude awakening.
Took em 173 years to figure out that Illinois is a shit-hole?
Place has been controlled by gangsters forever … unless they were “affiliated” and have now been disenfranchised.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
The morons in Cook County are to blame. They’ve grown up drinking lead contaminated water, so they are all stupid and crazy. If not for the teeming masses of Chicago idiots, Illinois would be a prosperous red state.
Illinois pinched Morton Salt.
Morton Salt couldn’t cure Illinois.
It was a peppery exchange.
They couldn’t shake things out.
Illinois isn’t worth it’s weight in salt.
Morton’s plan to move crystallized slowly.
The local weather called for sprinkles on moving day.
So, they made a dash for it so all that salt wouldn’t get wet.
They left Illinois some brine
I wish I had the money to remove myself from the ‘Peoples Democratic Republic Of Illinois.’
“The Left destroys everything it touches”
Dennis Prager,
EVERYTHING Harry, Everything.
We need a thread that each of us adds to listing everything the left has destroyed.
How about it BFH?
You can start with the left’s constant attempts to destroy the power of God. God will always rule, the left is nothing but God hating fools.
SNS Length with apologies…
Always had an asshole for a boss as being self employed. But circumstances forced other jobs for health care benes. Back in 87′ the premium was about six hundred a month which wasn’t sustainable for me (another story).
Anyway the last last job for benes (and still able to run other personal businesses) started out as Morton Chemical, which became Rhom Haas, which sold part of the operation to Huntsman Chemical, which gave me a locked in healthcare benefit at 55. Adios MFer.
Scary stories from what chemical plants do. You say there were problems with many cancer occurrences in the area or location of the plant? Force them to punch wells to monitor the ground water. Punch enough wells to find some that don’t show contamination and monitor those wells. Selling off those parts of the business that is getting sued is also a good idea.
Better stop now…
Isocyanates are not your friend if you like breathing, but perhaps better than cancer.
P.S. The problems with government is not limited to state run here in ILLIN-NOS. Locally it only costs $1,500.00 if you want to talk to the Village Board about opening a business and then it will not be in keeping with the community’s vision (perhaps further discussion with envelopes). Permitting can take YEARS! Next town over, no problem…
And this is the edited version.
I did get a little Gerber pocket knife with the Morton logo and a tiny sapphire in it for five years.
The last of the premiums that still had the Morton logo
When it pours, it rains
lived a long way from s**tcago, still glad i left grobama’s ******-heaven
Any bets on just how big the giant clusterfuck will be in Chicago this week starting tomorrow with the democrap convention in Chitown.
I remember Morton / Thiokol’s boom-boom booster.
You can wander through for free.
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After leaving the USAF, I went to work for a chemical company called Pennwalt Corporation. It was a very old company originally called The Pennsylvania Salt Company. During the years I worked for them, 1977 through 1982, they refused to do any business with the federal government. They didn’t want to be bound by the stupid rules, conditions and regulations that the government insisted on to do business with them. The plant I worked at made ethyl mercaptan which is the chemical added to natural gas to make it stink so it can be detected when it leaks. It still doesn’t stink as bad as Bruce Springsteen’s music.