To lure Boeing to move its corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago nearly two decades ago, the city and state showered the aerospace giant with a package of still partially ongoing tax incentives that have cost taxpayers more than $60 million. Before beginning, you might want to contact John Warner, the man who led the site evaluation process for Boeing, which just last month moved from Seattle to its new worldwide headquarters in Chicago. December, 2007: Boeing decides to change the name from "Boeing World Headquarters" to merely the "Boeing Corporate Offices."'

At the time of the move, the company employed 78,400 people in the Seattle area and 198,900 people worldwide. "So that's what we call interstate job fraud.". He's not the only politician calling for an end to the incentives war. The reimbursement has averaged about $1.5 million a year. Boeing said the parent company's proximity to its biggest operating division stifled the company's potential growth in new ventures and disadvantaged Boeing's military and space-and-communication units, based in St. Louis and Seal Beach, Calif., respectively. It is difficult to determine how many of the jobs Boeing reported to the state and city were actually based at the firm's Chicago headquarters. Chicago and Illinois officials put forth a very different calculation back in 2001 in advocating for incentives for Boeing. Washington Gov. (Elaine Thompson/AP) [CDATA[// >