59 Illinois Companies Make Fortune 500 List For 2023

ILLINOIS — Fortune Magazine on Monday released its annual ranking of the 500 biggest companies in America by revenue, and 59 of them have headquarters in Illinois

This is the 69th edition of the Fortune 500 list, a ranking of companies by total annual revenue. The corporations on the list had combined revenues of $18 trillion in fiscal year 2022 and account for two-thirds of the gross domestic product, Fortune said in a news release. Profits, down 15 percent, fell for the second time in the last three years.

Companies in Illinois that ranked in the Top 100 include:

27. Walgreens Boots Alliance (food and drugs) Deerfield

35. Archer Daniels Midland (food production) Chicago

44. State Farm Insurance (insurance), Bloomington

73. AbbVie (pharmaceuticals), North Chicago

81. Deere (construction and farm machinery), Moline

84. Allstate (Insurance), Northbrook

95. United Airlines Holdings (Airlines), Chicago

98. Abbott Labs (Medical products and equipment), Abbott Park

For the first time in the list’s history, more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. This year’s list includes 52 Fortune 500 companies that are led by women, an all-time high, up from 44 last year.

The number of companies led by women in this year’s Fortune 500 is a “slow, but real” sign of progress, Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontoll said in her foreword in the June/July issue of the magazine.

“There are also more Black CEOs running Fortune 500s than ever before — but it’s shameful to say that there are still only eight,” Shontoll wrote.

The companies on the list are based in 224 cities in 38 states. For the second year, Texas leads with 55 Fortune 500 companies, followed by California with 53 companies, which bumped New York to No. 3 with 50 companies.

With 40 Fortune 500 companies based there, New York City is the top-ranked municipality, followed by Houston with 22 and Atlanta with 15.

The top 10 companies on the 2023 list are Walmart, Amazon.com, Exxon Mobil, Apple, UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health, Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet, McKeeson and Chevron.

Walmart held the top spot for the 11th consecutive year, generating $5.7 trillion in cumulative revenue over that time. Amazon.com is at No. 2 for the fourth straight year with a 9 percent jump in revenue, eclipsing the $510 billion mark. At No. 3 with a 45 percent jump in revenue, Exxon Mobil bumped Apple to No. 4.

But with $99.8 billion in profits, Apple was the most profitable company on the list for the eighth time in nine years.

UnitedHealth Group is the highest-ranked healthcare company on the list at No. 5, followed by CVS Health at No. 6.