Virtual Office Locations in Chicago, Illinois

Virtual Office Location Spotlight: Chicago

Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Watershed. Today, the city retains its status as a major hub for business, industry, infrastructure and telecommunications, with its O'Hare International Airport being the world's second busiest. Among global metropolitan areas, the City of Chicago lays claim to the fourth largest GDP and is undoubtedly a hugely significant center of global commerce, therefore making it the perfect location for a variety of impressive virtual offices. The city has also been rated as having the most balanced economy in the United States, due to its high level of diversification. Chicago was named the fourth most important business center in the world in the MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index. Additionally, the Chicago metro area recorded the highest number of new or expanded corporate facilities in the country for six of the seven years from 2001 to 2008. In 2009, Chicago placed ninth on the UBS list of the world's richest cities. Chicago played home base for commercial operations for many industrialist and commercial visionaries who laid the foundation for not only Midwestern industry, but global industry as well.

Chicago is also home to a growing number of virtual startup companies, such as Groupon, Orbitz, 37signals, Feedburner, and CareerBuilder.

Alliance Virtual Offices offers any commercial organization or mobile entrepreneur who is considering Chicago virtual office space, a wide variety of different office space, meeting room, conference room, service packages (ex: video conferencing, receptionist, phone answering) and business center options from which to choose. Alliance Virtual Offices offers Chicago virtual office spaces that range from large, open-plan office spaces (perfect for a company headquarters) to smaller individual spaces and workstations.

Alliance Virtual Offices offers three fantastic Chicago virtual office spaces that come fully equipped with some of the best values, services and amenities that the Midwest had to offer.

As the county seat of Cook Country, the City of Chicago is the largest in the state of Illinois as well as the third most populated city in the country, with around 2.7 million residents. Its metro area, sometimes referred to as "Chicagoland," is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 9.8 million divided among Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. From plays, movies, songs, novels, movies and the news media, The City of Chicago has been represented in many forms of popular culture. The City's most well-known nicknames include, "Chi-town," "Second City," "The Windy City," and the "City of Big Shoulders."