Decatur, Illinois
# Employer # of employees
1 Archer Daniels Midland 4,000
2 Decatur Memorial Hospital 2,300
3 Caterpillar Inc 3,100
4 Decatur Public Schools 1,800
5 St. Mary 's Hospital 1,000
6 Millikin University 615
7 The Kelly Group 600
8 Mueller Co 600
9 Akorn Incorporated 600
10 Tate & Lyle 600
Economy -- Top employers
According to the EDC of Decatur & Macon County , [ 55 ] the top employers in Decatur are as follows :
Decatur /dəˈkeɪtər/ is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 76,122 as of the 2010 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. Decatur's estimated population for 2018 was 71,290. Decatur is the thirteenth-most populous city in Illinois, and the state's sixth-most populous city outside the Chicago metropolitan area. Decatur is listed on USA Today as number 7 nationally on Americas fastest shrinking cities which showed a 5.5% population loss of (-6,072) from 2010 to 2018 with loss of 584 full time jobs. The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production, including the North American headquarters of agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, international agribusiness Tate & Lyle's largest corn-processing plant, and the designing and manufacturing facilities for Caterpillar Inc.'s wheel-tractor scrapers, compactors, large wheel loaders, mining class motor grader, off-highway trucks, and large mining trucks.