McDonald’s
About McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world’s largest fast food restaurant chain, headquartered at 110 North Carpenter Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607 — a purpose-built, nine-story, 580,000-square-foot global headquarters in Chicago’s vibrant West Loop neighborhood, constructed on the former site of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios and opened on June 4, 2018. McDonald’s was founded on April 15, 1955 by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois — though the original McDonald’s restaurant was opened in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, whose system-driven operations Kroc franchised and eventually purchased outright in 1961. McDonald’s was first headquartered in Chicago’s downtown Loop before moving to Oak Brook, Illinois in 1971, where it operated for 47 years from “McDonald’s