Illinois Cement is a producer of Portland cement in LaSalle County, IL. The site has vast limestone reserves, good access to rail lines and first produced “Owl Cement” in 1897 by a German Company. Over the years several companies bought and sold the facility until 1972 when a joint venture between Centex Corp and the Pritzker family of Chicago formed a new partnership now known as the Illinois Cement Co. that built a new 1,125 ton per day production plant. The project was a $5,000,000 investment in equipment that created and retained 160 full-time jobs.
Project added to the Zone in 2018.