Jun
15
McDonald’s Heads Back to Chicago
ByThe company will move its corporate headquarters to Oprah Winfrey’s former Harpo Studios in the West Loop.
1045 W. Randolph St., Chicago
Chicago—Saying it wanted a state-of-the-art headquarters to move its business forward,McDonald’s is leaving behind its longtime home in the Chicago suburbs and heading into new space in one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods in the West Loop.
The fast-food giant, which has had its 88-acre corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., for nearly 40 years, confirmed this week it has leased space at 1045 W. Randolph at the site of Oprah Winfrey’s former Harpo Studios. Chicago-based developer Sterling Bay Cos. bought the 3.5-acre, four-building campus in the Fulton Market submarket for $32 million in 2014. Winfrey stopped taping her show there in 2011 and closed the studio at the end of 2015…
