The Illinois Silicon Prairie typically refers to the Chicago and Champaign/Urbana areas. Much of the high technology industry base in the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area consists of research and small start-up companies working with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Seven Fortune 500 companies have research entities at the university's research park, which is located in Champaign. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is in Urbana.
The Chicago Metropolitan Area is home to several companies in the industrial automation, consumer electronics, telecommunications and online services industries. The Illinois Technology and Research Corridor along Interstate 88 and the Golden Corridor along Interstate 90 have particularly high concentrations of such businesses.
Among the Chicago area companies that comprise the Illinois Silicon Prairie are:
Alcatel-Lucent (Naperville) Amada America (Schaumburg) Anixter (Glenview) CDW (Vernon Hills) Classified Ventures (Chicago) CommScope (Joliet, Illinois) Continental Automotive Systems (Deer Park) FANUC Robotics America Corporation (Hoffman Estates) Groupon (Chicago) Guaranteed Rate (Chicago) Hostway (Chicago) LiveText (LaGrange) Molex (Lisle) Mori Seiki USA/DMG (Hoffman Estates) Motorola Mobility (Libertyville) Motorola Solutions (Schaumburg) Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (Rolling Meadows) Omron (Schaumburg) Orbitz (Chicago) Panasonic Corporation (Buffalo Grove) Schneider Electric (Palatine) Shure (Niles) Tellabs (Naperville) Underwriters Laboratories (Northbrook) USRobotics (Schaumburg) Westell (Aurora) WMS Gaming (Waukegan) Zebra Technologies (Lincolnshire)
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