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Fortune 500: These Illinois Companies Make 2019 List

The annual Fortune 500 list ranks the top companies in the U.S.

Here are the Illinois companies that made the Fortune 500.
Here are the Illinois companies that made the Fortune 500. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/GetGetty Images)

ILLINOIS — Fortune Magazine has released its annual list of the 500 top companies in America, which represent two-thirds of the U.S. GDP and have a total of $13.7 trillion in revenue, the magazine says. Of those 500 companies, 66 are based in Illinois.

Fortune explains that it ranks companies by total revenue and Walmart topped the 2019 list, followed by Exxon Mobil and Apple. Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon ranked No.4 and No.5, rounding out the top five spots on the list.

To put the list in context, Fortune writes that just a tenth of the companies on the list are responsible for nearly half of the total $13.7 trillion in revenue. (You can read more in detail about the list via Fortune here.)

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In Illinois, the following companies made the Fortune 500 list. Also included are their projected revenues in millions:

The top 10 companies on the list are:

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  1. Walmart
  2. Exxon Mobil
  3. Apple
  4. Berkshire Hathaway
  5. Amazon.com
  6. UnitedHealth Group
  7. McKesson
  8. CVS Health
  9. AT&T
  10. AmerisourceBergen

See the full Fortune 500 list here.

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