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Former McDonald’s Campus in Oak Brook, Illinois

Summary by Atlas Obscura
In the 1970s, McDonald's began development on their new campus in Oak Brook, Illinois. The goal, per McDonald's CEO Fred Turner (grandson of modernist architecture pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), was to create a campus-in-park type headquarters. After hiring architect Dick Lohan, the company began to build their campus on over 70 acres of land, complete with winding paths surrounded by nature, lakes with small waterfalls connecting, cast stat…

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Atlas Obscura broke the news in on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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