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The State Farm Downtown Building, variously known as the State Farm Insurance Building or the State Farm Fire Building, is an Art Deco building in downtown Bloomington, Illinois. It served as the corporate headquarters for State Farm Insurance from its construction until 1974.
State Farm Insurance "Fire Building" in downtown Bloomington, Illinois. State Farm was founded in June 1922 by retired farmer George J. Mecherle as a mutual automobile insurance company owned by its policyholders. [10]
Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, [26] Country Financial, Illinois Agricultural Association, and Beer Nuts. [27] The original Steak 'n Shake restaurant was opened in Normal, Bloomington's adjoining city, in 1934. [ 28 ]
Michael L. Tipsord (born June 20, 1959) is the chairman of the board of State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, Illinois. Tipsord replaced Edward B. Rust Jr. as chairman on September 1, 2015. [1] State Farm is the 42nd largest company in the United States on the Fortune 500 [2] and the country’s largest auto and home insurer. [3] [4]
Edward Barry Rust Jr. (born August 3, 1950) [1] was chairman of the board of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois.He is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company and other principal State Farm affiliates.
George Jacob "G.J." Mecherle [1] (pronounced "Ma-herl") (June 7, 1877 - March 10, 1951) was the founder of State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.Mecherle, a farmer who later became an insurance agent, founded State Farm after becoming dissatisfied with the insurance rates charged to farmers, as those rates included the risks of city drivers as well.
The State Farm Research and Development Center opened in January 2005 at the University of Illinois’ Research Park. State Farm has been involved in academic programming, student assistance and research at U of I for over 35 years, but this facility allows for of college interns working on projects to benefit the company as a whole, while students get to apply what they learn in class to ...
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .