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Originally Posted by LaSalle.St.Station
How quickly we forget our roots, Hog butcher, Cyrus McCormick, Grain Warehousing, Commodities trading..... We're all tied together... we advance together.
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Exactly. The old business model isn't there, but the marketing, advertising, accounting, legal, financial, technical, and other services that are supplied by the city proper both feed off of and drive the economies of rural and suburban areas.
It is in the commodity exchanges getting the money for crops grown and hogs processed downstate. It is in the marketing and advertising services provided to the superstore chains covering the state. It is in the architectural and engineering firms that design the processing plants, roads, and other large scale projects outside the city. It is in the software companies that build the custom software to map field harvests or sell industrial parts online.
All sorts of small and medium sized companies in the city limits sell services to suburban and downstate businesses, and those businesses wouldn't be viable without having access to those services.