Since the 1840s, Chicago has played a significant role in national and international food production, with companies such as Swift & Armour -- which became Swift & Company and Armour and Company -- sparking the international meat-packing revolution. As a transportation hub with a central location, the city became a center for the distribution of goods out West and back East.
Hundreds of well-known food products have originated or are produced in the city. Below is a list of widely known food manufacturers with current or historical ties to the Windy City.
[[File:|right|thumb|200px|Doublemint gum manufactured by the well known Wrigley Company.]]
Since the 1840s, Chicago has played a significant role in national and international food production [1]. Many people attribute the success of early food manufactures in the region to both the proximity to major rail hubs as well as being near some of the nations most productive agricultural areas. One example is Swift & Armour formed by the merger of Swift & Company and Armour and Company. The ability to quickly move meat in refrigerated trains, a new innovation in that era, along with access to cattle and pork helped spark an international meat-packing revolution. Located centrally within the United States this made Chicago a ideal transportation hub for the distribution of goods out West and back East. Towards the end of the twentieth century many companies merged making Chicago based food processors some of the largest local employers mass-producing some of the most well known global brands.
Today that tradition continues with companies such as Kraft, Wrigley and Sara Lee all running global operations within Chicagoland.
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Hundreds of well-known food products have originated or are produced in the city. Below is a list of widely known food manufacturers with current or historical ties to Chicago.
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