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Chicago Faces More Corporate Departures as Tyson Moves Out

  • America’s top meat packer is moving corporate team to Arkansas
  • City of Chicago is in talks to lure other ‘notable’ food firms

Packages of Tyson Foods Inc. prepared foods.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg 

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America’s top meat company is following in the footsteps of hedge fund Citadel and Boeing Inc. with plans to move white-collar workers out of the Chicago area.

Tyson Foods Inc. said Wednesday it’s shifting all of its corporate teams to its longtime headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, the company said in a statementBloomberg Terminal. That means about 1,000 employees from downtown Chicago and its Downers Grove suburb will relocate, as will workers in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota.