Editing Decatur, Illinois (section)

==Economy==
[[File:H. Mueller Manufacturing Co. 1904.JPG|thumb|[[Mueller Co.]] {{circa|1904}}]]

===Industry===
Decatur has production facilities for [[Caterpillar Inc.|Caterpillar]],<ref name="ReferenceA">pdf.cat.com/cda/files/113505/.../2008%20WW%20location_final.pdf</ref> [[Archer Daniels Midland]],<ref name="ReferenceA"/> [[Mueller Co.]], and [[Tate & Lyle|Primient]] (previously [[Tate & Lyle]], [[A. E. Staley]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tateandlyle.com/aboutus/history/pages/history.aspx|title = History}}</ref>

[[Caterpillar Inc.]] has one of its largest manufacturing plants in the U.S. in Decatur. This plant produces Caterpillar's off highway trucks, wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining-class motorgraders, and their ultra-class mining trucks (including the [[Caterpillar 797]]). [[Archer Daniels Midland]] processes corn and soybeans, [[Mueller Water Products|Mueller]] produces water distribution products and [[Tate & Lyle]] processes corn in Decatur.

Decatur has been ranked third in the nation as an Emerging Logistics and Distribution Center by Business Facilities: The Location Advisor,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://businessfacilities.com/feature-story-game-changer-heartland/|title=Feature Story: Game-Changer In The Heartland|work=Business Facilities |access-date=October 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625153029/http://businessfacilities.com/feature-story-game-changer-heartland/|archive-date=June 25, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was named a Top 25 Trade City by ''Global Trade''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globaltrademag.com/top-25-cities-for-global-trade/ |title=Top 25 Cities for Global Trade &#124; Global Trade Magazine |access-date=June 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607003411/http://globaltrademag.com/top-25-cities-for-global-trade/ |archive-date=June 7, 2014 }}</ref> In 2013 the Economic Development Corporation of Decatur & Macon County established the Midwest Inland Port,<ref>[http://www.midwestinlandport.com/ Midwest Inland Port]</ref> a multi-modal transportation hub with market proximity to 95 million customers in a 500-mile radius. The port includes the [[Archer Daniels Midland]] [[intermodal container]] ramp, the two class I railroads that service the ramp and the city (the [[Canadian National Railway]], and the [[Norfolk Southern Railway]]), five major roadways and the [[Decatur Airport]]. The Midwest Inland Port also has a [[foreign trade zone]] and customs clearing,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.decatur-parks.org/airport-home-page/specialty-business-services/u-s-customs-service/|title=Decatur Airport|work=decatur-parks.org|access-date=October 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016171747/http://www.decatur-parks.org/airport-home-page/specialty-business-services/u-s-customs-service/|archive-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref> and the area is both an [[enterprise zone]] and [[tax increment financing]] district.

In August 2019, Mueller Company announced plans to construct a "state-of-the-art" brass foundry in Decatur on a 30-acre site in the 2700 block of North Jasper Street. The facility is expected to employ 250 personnel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Perry |first1=Scott |title=Mueller Water Products breaks ground for state-of-the-art foundry in Decatur |url=https://herald-review.com/business/local/mueller-water-products-breaks-ground-for-state-of-the-art-foundry-in-decatur/article_c16bf143-a732-5d05-b690-7e7187420296.html |access-date=February 5, 2021 |work=Decatur Herald & Review |publisher=Lee Enterprises |date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>

In November 2020, ADM and InnovaFeed announced plans to construct the world's largest insect protein facility targeted to begin in 2021. The facility will be owned and operated by InnovaFeed and will co-locate with ADM's Decatur corn processing complex. This new project represents innovative, sustainable production to meet growing demand for insect protein in animal feed, a market that has potential to reach 1 million tons in 2027. Construction of the new high-capacity facility is expected to create more than 280 direct and 400 indirect jobs in the Decatur region by the second phase.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.decaturedc.com/innovafeed/|title = ADM, InnovaFeed announce construction of world's largest insect protein facility in Decatur, Illinois|date = November 19, 2020}}</ref>

===Top employers===
{{Update|section|inaccurate=yes|reason=[[Akorn|Akorn Incorporated]] has since [https://www.wcia.com/macon-county-2/akorn-pharmaceuticals-announces-bankruptcy-lays-off-hundreds-in-decatur/ filed for bankruptcy] and laid off employees in Danville.|date=March 2024}}
According to the EDC of Decatur & Macon County,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.decaturedc.com/industries-here/|title=Industries Here|website=decaturedc.com|access-date=March 10, 2019}}</ref> the top employers in Decatur are as follows:
{{static row numbers}}
{| class="wikitable static-row-numbers sortable"
|- class="static-row-header"
! class="unsortable" |Employer
! data-sort-type=number |# of employees
|-
| [[Archer Daniels Midland]]
|4,000
|-
| [[Caterpillar Inc.]]
|3,150
|-
| [[Decatur Memorial Hospital]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dmhcares.org/|title=Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur, Illinois – DMH Cares About Your Health|work=dmhcares.org|access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref>
|1,903
|-
| [[Decatur Public Schools District 61|Decatur Public Schools]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dps61.org|title=Decatur Public Schools / Overview|work=dps61.org|access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref>
|1,752
|-
| HSHS St. Mary's Hospital<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stmarysdecatur.com/|title=St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur, Illinois – Exceptional Health Care|work=stmarysdecatur.com|access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref>
|930
|-
|[[Ameren]] Illinois
|630
|-
| [[Millikin University]]
|600
|-
| [[A. E. Staley|Primient]]
|600
|-
| [[Mueller Co.]]
|585
|-
|The Kelly Group
|575
|}

===Former employers===
From 1917 to 1922, Decatur was the location of the Comet Automobile Company,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comet Automobile Company Records Accession1771 |url=http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/henryford/docs/CometAutomobileCompanyRecords_Accession1771.pdf |website=www.dalnet.lib.mi.us}}</ref> and the Pan-American Motor Corporation.

In 1950, the Marvel-Schebler Division of [[BorgWarner]] opened a new facility in Decatur. The plant, which once had as many as 1,300 employees, was sold to Facet Aerospace Products in 1982. The plant closed in April 1983.<ref>{{cite news |title=Work ends today at Marvel-Schebler |work=Herald & Review |issue=Pg A4 |date=April 15, 1983}}</ref>

{{See also|Lysine price-fixing conspiracy}}
In early November 1992, business executive [[Mark Whitacre]] of Decatur-based [[Archer Daniels Midland]] confessed to an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent that ADM executives, including Whitacre himself, had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of [[lysine]], a food additive. The lysine conspirators, including ADM, ultimately settled federal charges for more than $100&nbsp;million. ADM also paid hundreds of millions of dollars ($400&nbsp;million alone on the [[high-fructose corn syrup]] class action case) to plaintiffs and customers that it stole from during the [[Price fixing|price-fixing]] schemes.<ref name="Greenwald, John">{{Cite web |date=January 14, 2009 |title=THE FIX WAS IN AT ADM - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985379,00.html |access-date=March 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114104626/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985379,00.html |archive-date=January 14, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |author=Wilson, John K. |date=December 21, 2000 |url=http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20001221c.asp?prodtype=grn |title=Price-Fixer to the World |publisher=[[Bankrate.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031217002440/http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20001221c.asp?prodtype=grn |archive-date=December 17, 2003}}</ref><ref name="KaplanFox">{{cite web |url=http://www.kaplanfox.com/press.php?&id=7 |title=Archer Daniels Settles Suit Accusing it of Price Fixing |publisher=KaplanFox |date=July 19, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929213021/http://www.kaplanfox.com/press.php?&id=7 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="FoodNavigator">{{cite web |url=http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=52937–sweetener-settlement-for |title=Sweetner Settlement for ADM |publisher=FoodNavigator |date=June 18, 2004}}</ref> In 2014, ADM moved its upper corporate management out of Decatur and established the new ADM World Headquarters in downtown Chicago. Following the ADM corporate exit, Decatur became listed by the [[United States Census Bureau]] as number 3 in "The 15 Fastest-Declining Large Cities" which showed a 7.1% population loss of (-5,376) from 2010 to 2019.<ref name=":2" />

The Japanese corporation [[Bridgestone]] owns [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company]], which operated a large tire factory here. Firestone's Decatur plant was closed in December 2001 amid a [[Firestone and Ford tire controversy|tire failure controversy]]. All 1,500 employees were laid off.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/us/an-illinois-tire-plant-closes-and-a-way-of-life-fades.html|title=An Illinois Tire Plant Closes and a Way of Life Fades|last=Kilborn|first=Peter T.|date=December 14, 2001|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 29, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Firestone cited a decline in consumer demand for Firestone tires and the age of the Decatur plant as the reasons for closing that facility.<ref name="Close Plant">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/business/bridgestone-firestone-to-close-tire-plant-at-center-of-huge-recall.html|title=Bridgestone/Firestone to Close Tire Plant at Center of Huge Recall|last=Barboza|first=David|date=June 28, 2001|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 29, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>