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Clayco is one of the nation s design-build giants, undertaking commercial and residential building projects nationwide for the likes of Amazon, Illinois Cook County, Kohl s, Pfizer, Penn State University, Zurich and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Even during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the company took in $4.8B in revenue and had about 2,000 employees.
Innovation of one kind or another has enabled the company to grow from humble origins, according to Executive Chairman Bob Clark, who founded Clayco in 1984 when he was 25 years old.