But Even to Top That, For a Longer Term Perspective, Illinois Companies Had Their Total After-Tax Net Income Increase By 887% Excluding Giant Utility Co Exelon and Increase By 588% Including Exelon, Both During the Entire Span of the Obama Administration From 2008, the Year Before Barack Obama Took Office, to 2016, Obama's Last Year in Office.
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From
a review of US SEC filings, there were 97 Companies effectively headquartered
in Illinois with stock market caps of more than $1 Bil recently.
From a review of SEC filings, the chart below shows the Gold-Standard
US GAAP Pretax Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for the First Half of
2018 and 2017 for these 97 Illinois Companies.
| US | US | ||
| GAAP | GAAP | ||
| Pretax | Pretax | ||
| Income | Income | ||
| (Loss) | (Loss) | ||
| 6 Months | 6 Months | ||
| June | June | Better | |
| July | July | (Worse) | |
| Illinois Companies | or Aug | or Aug | % |
| Market Caps Above $1 Bil | 2018 | 2017 | Change |
| mils $ | mils $ | ||
| AbbVie | 4,809 | 4,439 | 8% |
| Caterpillar | 4,334 | 1,448 | 199% |
| McDonalds | 3,906 | 3,869 | 1% |
| Walgreen's Boots Alliance | 3,128 | 2,266 | 38% |
| Deere & Co | 2,587 | 2,070 | 25% |
| Allstate | 2,069 | 1,863 | 11% |
| Illinois Tool Works | 1,743 | 1,568 | 11% |
| Discover Financial Services | 1,733 | 1,735 | 0% |
| Mondelez Intl | 1,590 | 1,371 | 16% |
| CME Group | 1,546 | 1,344 | 15% |
| Exelon | 1,303 | 1,214 | 7% |
| Abbott Labs | 1,208 | 1,031 | 17% |
| Archer Daniels Midland | 1,116 | 841 | 33% |
| United Continental Holdings | 1,041 | 1,427 | -27% |
| Northern Trust | 991 | 782 | 27% |
| Baxter Intl | 842 | 634 | 33% |
| CNH Industrial NV | 791 | 443 | 79% |
| CNA Financial | 676 | 713 | -5% |
| Hyatt Hotels | 663 | 245 | 171% |
| WW Grainger | 630 | 478 | 32% |
| Packaging Corp of America | 432 | 388 | 11% |
| LKQ Corp | 421 | 440 | -4% |
| Ulta Beauty | 406 | 369 | 10% |
| CDW Corp | 396 | 269 | 47% |
| Motorola Solutions | 367 | 325 | 13% |
| Ingredion | 351 | 365 | -4% |
| Arthur J Gallagher & Co | 346 | 254 | 36% |
| Dover | 345 | 405 | -15% |
| Conagra Brands | 343 | 367 | -7% |
| Equity Residential | 339 | 354 | -4% |
| CF Industries | 323 | 7 | 4514% |
| Tribune Media | 315 | (193) | 263% |
| Fortune Brands Home&Security | 282 | 303 | -7% |
| Cboe Global Markets | 279 | 124 | 125% |
| CDK Global | 272 | 204 | 33% |
| Idex Corp | 267 | 217 | 23% |
| Navistar | 248 | (28) | 986% |
| Old Republic Intl | 241 | 311 | -23% |
| Zebra Technologies | 233 | 17 | 1271% |
| Wintrust Financial | 230 | 190 | 21% |
| Equity Commonwealth | 227 | 18 | 1161% |
| US Foods Holding | 224 | 119 | 88% |
| Ventas | 210 | 303 | -31% |
| Jones Lang LaSalle | 203 | 139 | 46% |
| Brunswick | 198 | 253 | -22% |
| Tenneco | 190 | 113 | 68% |
| TransUnion | 176 | 168 | 5% |
| GGP Inc | 162 | 247 | -34% |
| Univar | 158 | 63 | 151% |
| AptarGroup | 156 | 149 | 5% |
| United States Cellular | 147 | 73 | 101% |
| Telephone and Data Systems | 146 | 99 | 47% |
| GATX Corp | 145 | 151 | -4% |
| MB Financial | 119 | 140 | -15% |
| Camping World Holdings | 118 | 174 | -32% |
| USG Corp | 116 | 150 | -23% |
| Equity Lifestyle Properties | 113 | 107 | 6% |
| Kemper Corp | 113 | 49 | 131% |
| Adtalem Global Education | 111 | 92 | 21% |
| Morningstar | 110 | 87 | 26% |
| Kapstone Paper & Packaging | 110 | 40 | 175% |
| AAR Corp | 98 | 92 | 7% |
| Littelfuse | 97 | 105 | -8% |
| Anixter Intl | 95 | 114 | -17% |
| First Industrial Realty Trust | 83 | 62 | 34% |
| First Midwest Bancorp | 82 | 88 | -7% |
| Stepan | 80 | 81 | -1% |
| Cabot Microelectronics | 80 | 49 | 63% |
| Hill-Rom Holdings | 78 | 57 | 37% |
| Stericycle | 66 | (128) | 152% |
| GrubHub | 65 | 47 | 38% |
| First Busey | 64 | 49 | 31% |
| Methode Electronics | 59 | 52 | 13% |
| Enova Intl | 59 | 39 | 49% |
| RLI Corp | 54 | 61 | -11% |
| Retail Properties of America | 53 | 106 | -50% |
| Federal Signal | 52 | 29 | 79% |
| Hub Group | 51 | 32 | 59% |
| ACCO Brands | 50 | 38 | 32% |
| Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | 43 | (153) | 128% |
| John Bean Technologies | 40 | 43 | -7% |
| Career Education | 33 | 20 | 65% |
| Horace Mann Educators | 31 | 20 | 55% |
| CTS Corp | 27 | 26 | 4% |
| Navigant Consulting | 25 | 21 | 19% |
| Tootsie Roll Industries | 24 | 30 | -20% |
| Century Aluminum | 20 | (7) | 396% |
| Coeur Mining | 20 | 18 | 11% |
| Cars.com | 18 | 54 | -66% |
| Paylocity | 18 | 10 | 73% |
| Knowles | 6 | (30) | 120% |
| Cision Ltd | - | (56) | 100% |
| Envestnet | (11) | (10) | -9% |
| TreeHouse Foods | (70) | (16) | -338% |
| Groupon | (96) | (18) | -446% |
| Akorn | (140) | 72 | -294% |
| Horizon Pharma plc | (186) | (349) | 47% |
| Total all 97 Illinois Companies | 47,462 | 37,851 | 25% |
Also from a review of SEC filings, the chart below shows the Gold-Standard US GAAP Audited After-Tax Net Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations for Annual 2016 and Annual 2008, spanning the entire Obama Administration, for the 97 Illinois Companies which reported both their 2016 and 2008 After-Tax Net Income (Loss) to the SEC and also had stock market caps or total equity of more than $1 Bil. Illinois must be the haven for company separations and they were all included below where both companies involved were Illinois ones.
| Obama | Bush | ||||||
| Last | Last | ||||||
| Year | Year | ||||||
| in | in | ||||||
| Office | Office | ||||||
| 2016 | 2008 | ||||||
| Audited | Audited | Better | |||||
| Net | Net | (Worse) | |||||
| Illinois Companies | City | State | 2016 | Income | Income | Better | % |
| Market Caps Above $1 Bil | HQs | HQs | FYE | (Loss) | (Loss) | (Worse) | Change |
| $ mils | $ mils | $ mils | |||||
| AbbVie | North Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 5,953 | 4,058 | 1,895 | 47% |
| Baxter Intl | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | 4,966 | 2,025 | 2,941 | 145% |
| McDonald's | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | 4,687 | 4,313 | 374 | 9% |
| Equity Residential | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 4,480 | (40) | 4,520 | 11300% |
| Walgreens Boot Alliance | Deerfield | IL | Aug16 | 4,191 | 2,157 | 2,034 | 94% |
| Discover Financial Services | Riverwoods | IL | Dec16 | 2,393 | 1,063 | 1,330 | 125% |
| United Continental | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 2,263 | (5,396) | 7,659 | 142% |
| Illinois Tool Works | Glenview | IL | Dec16 | 2,035 | 1,691 | 344 | 20% |
| Allstate | Northbrook | IL | Dec16 | 1,877 | (1,679) | 3,556 | 212% |
| Mondelez Intl | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | 1,669 | 147 | 1,522 | 1035% |
| CME Group | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 1,534 | 716 | 818 | 114% |
| Deere | Moline | IL | Oct16 | 1,522 | 2,054 | (532) | -26% |
| General Growth Properties | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 1,309 | (59) | 1,368 | 2319% |
| Archer Daniels Midland | Decatur | IL | Dec16 | 1,288 | 1,688 | (400) | -24% |
| Abbott Laboratories | Abbott Park | IL | Dec16 | 1,063 | 676 | 387 | 57% |
| Northern Trust | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 1,033 | 795 | 238 | 30% |
| CNA Financial | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 859 | (251) | 1,110 | 442% |
| WW Grainger | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 633 | 475 | 158 | 33% |
| Motorola Solutions | Schaumburg | IL | Dec16 | 562 | (4,437) | 4,999 | 113% |
| Ventas | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 554 | 177 | 377 | 213% |
| Mead Johnson Nutrition | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 549 | 401 | 148 | 37% |
| ConAgra Foods | Chicago | IL | May17 | 546 | 615 | (69) | -11% |
| Dover Corp | Downers Grove | IL | Dec16 | 509 | 695 | (186) | -27% |
| Ingredion | Westchester | IL | Dec16 | 496 | 275 | 221 | 80% |
| Old Republic Intl Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 467 | (558) | 1,025 | 184% |
| LKQ Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 456 | 97 | 359 | 370% |
| Packaging Corp of America | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 450 | 136 | 314 | 231% |
| Arthur J Gallagher | Itasca | IL | Dec16 | 445 | 111 | 334 | 301% |
| Tenneco Inc | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 424 | (405) | 829 | 205% |
| CDW Corp | Vernon Hills | IL | Dec16 | 424 | (1,765) | 2,189 | 124% |
| Fortune Brands Home & Security | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | 412 | (700) | 1,112 | 159% |
| Ulta Beauty | Bolingbrook | IL | Jan17 | 410 | 25 | 385 | 1540% |
| Jones Lang LaSalle | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 334 | 87 | 247 | 284% |
| Middleby | Elgin | IL | Dec16 | 284 | 64 | 220 | 344% |
| Brunswick Corp | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 274 | (788) | 1,062 | 135% |
| IDEX Corp | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 271 | 127 | 144 | 113% |
| GATX Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 257 | 195 | 62 | 32% |
| Equity Commonwealth | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 233 | 62 | 171 | 276% |
| USG Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 211 | (463) | 674 | 146% |
| US Foods Holding | Rosemont | IL | Dec16 | 210 | (114) | 324 | 284% |
| Terra Nitrogen LP | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | 209 | 422 | (213) | -50% |
| Stericycle | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 208 | 149 | 59 | 40% |
| PrivateBancorp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 208 | (93) | 301 | 324% |
| Wintrust Financial | Rosemont | IL | Dec16 | 207 | 20 | 187 | 935% |
| AptarGroup Inc | Crystal Lake | IL | Dec16 | 206 | 154 | 52 | 34% |
| Hyatt Hotels | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 204 | 115 | 89 | 77% |
| Equity Lifestyle Properties | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 187 | 39 | 148 | 379% |
| CBOE Holdings Inc | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 186 | 115 | 71 | 62% |
| Akorn Inc | Lake Forest | IL | Dec16 | 184 | (8) | 192 | 2400% |
| MB Financial | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 174 | 16 | 158 | 988% |
| Morningstar | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 161 | 90 | 71 | 79% |
| TransUnion | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 131 | 134 | (3) | -2% |
| First Industrial Realty Trust | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 126 | (149) | 275 | 185% |
| Care Capital Properties | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 123 |
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| Adtalem Global Education | Downers Grove | IL | Jun17 | 123 | 166 | (43) | -26% |
| Hill-Rom Holdings Inc | Chicago | IL | Sep16 | 123 | 67 | 56 | 84% |
| Anixter Intl | Glenview | IL | Dec16 | 121 | 188 | (67) | -36% |
| RLI Corp | Peoria | IL | Dec16 | 115 | 79 | 36 | 46% |
| Littelfuse | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 104 | 8 | 96 | 1200% |
| ACCO Brands Corp | Lake Zurich | IL | Dec16 | 96 | (263) | 359 | 137% |
| Methode Electronics Inc | Chicago | IL | Apr17 | 93 | (112) | 205 | 112% |
| First Midwest Bancorp | Itasca | IL | Dec16 | 92 | 49 | 43 | 88% |
| Tribune Media Co | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 87 |
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| Inventrust Properties Corp | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | 87 | (337) | 424 | 126% |
| Stepan Company | Northfield | IL | Dec16 | 86 | 37 | 49 | 132% |
| Kapstone Paper and Packaging | Northbrook | IL | Dec16 | 86 | 20 | 66 | 330% |
| Horace Mann Educators Corp | Springfield | IL | Dec16 | 84 | 11 | 73 | 664% |
| Hub Group Inc | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | 75 | 59 | 16 | 27% |
| John Bean Technologies | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 68 | 44 | 24 | 55% |
| Tootsie Roll Industries | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 67 | 39 | 28 | 72% |
| Cabot Microelectronics Corp | Aurora | IL | Sep16 | 60 | 38 | 22 | 58% |
| Navigant Consulting Inc | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 58 | 40 | 18 | 45% |
| Coeur Mining | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 55 | (8) | 63 | 788% |
| Telephone & Data Systems | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 52 | 118 | (66) | -56% |
| AAR Corp | Wood Dale | IL | May17 | 50 | 61 | (11) | -18% |
| First Busey Corp | Urbana | IL | Dec16 | 50 | (38) | 88 | 232% |
| United States Cellular Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 49 | 58 | (9) | -16% |
| Federal Signal Corp | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | 39 | 29 | 10 | 34% |
| Huron Consulting Group | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 39 | 0 | 39 |
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| Retail Properties of America | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | 37 | (658) | 695 | 106% |
| Knowles Corp | Itasca | IL | Dec16 | 19 |
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| Consolidated Communications | Mattoon | IL | Dec16 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 150% |
| Kemper Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 13 | (38) | 51 | 134% |
| tronc | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 7 | (4,351) | 4,358 | 100% |
| Allscripts Healthcare Solutions | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 3 | 26 | (23) | -88% |
| Envestnet Inc | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | (56) | 5 | (61) | -1220% |
| Caterpillar | Peoria | IL | Dec16 | (59) | 3,585 | (3,644) | -102% |
| Navistar Intl | Lisle | IL | Oct16 | (65) | 134 | (199) | -149% |
| Univar | Downers Grove | IL | Dec16 | (68) | (8) | (60) | -750% |
| Zebra Technologies Corp | Lincolnshire | IL | Dec16 | (137) | (38) | (99) | -261% |
| CF Industries | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | (158) | 802 | (960) | -120% |
| Horizon Pharma PLC | Deerfield | IL | Dec16 | (167) | (28) | (139) | -496% |
| Groupon | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | (183) | (2) | (181) | -9050% |
| TreeHouse Foods | Oak Brook | IL | Dec16 | (229) | 29 | (258) | -890% |
| Century Aluminum Co | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | (252) | (895) | 643 | 72% |
| HSBC Finance | Arlington Heights | IL | Dec 16 | (556) | (2,608) | 2,052 | 79% |
| Total all 96 With No Giant Utility Exelon | 55,170 | 5,588 | 49,582 | 887% | |||
| Exelon Corp | Chicago | IL | Dec16 | 1,965 | 2,717 | ||
| Total all 97 Illinois Cos | 57,135 | 8,305 | 48,830 | 588% |
