Tyson Foods has become the latest company to shutter its Chicago-area offices in response to rampant crime seen under progressive Mayor Lori Lightfoot, joining Boeing, Caterpillar, and several others to turn tail and flee the Windy City.
The official did not cite any further reasons for the sudden move, which comes as the latest blow to the embattled city's dwindling image under Mayor Lightfoot, who assumed office just before the crime wave began, in late 2019.
McDonald's, which opened a $250million headquarters in the city in 2018 after being headquartered there from 1955 to 1971, last month criticized the city for crime.
At the time, CEO Chris Kempczinski panned the city's crime situation, saying it is 'seeping into every corner of our city' and asking onlookers 'what's going on in Chicago?'.
McDonald's has said it's staying in Chicago, but for companies such as Boeing, Caterpillar, and Citadel, that is not the case, with all announcing plans to move out of Chicago in recent months - almost three years into the city's unprecedented crime wave.
Tyson has said the move out of the city was not related to crime.
Lightfoot, an African-American progressive who slashed $59million from her city's police budget in 2020 but performed an abrupt about-face on that policy in 2021 amid increasing crime.
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