Encyclopedia britannica 20186/12/2023 ![]() “Chicago has always been a city of big shoulders,” Krishnan said. That office was moved in 1943 to Chicago, the hometown of on-again, off-again owner Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sold the encyclopedias in its famed catalogs.Ĭhicago has “always shown resilience and tenacity,” said CEO Karthik Krishnan, and that’s just what Britannica wants in a home. The company started in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, and eventually put an editorial office in New York. The company made famous by its encyclopedia sets has been headquartered in Chicago since the 1940s (ever notice the red brick building with the clock on the river at LaSalle? The one that says “Britannica”? Yeah, that’s them). ![]() DOWNTOWN - Encyclopedia Britannica is celebrating its 250th birthday - and more than seven decades in Chicago.
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