Motorola Mobility, via its purchase by Google Inc., is trading in its digs in Libertyville for prime space in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, becoming the latest jobs installation from the suburbs to make the transfer downtown.
It’s another example of how the isolated, splendidly landscaped corporate base in the suburbs has fallen out of favor. Motorola Mobility joins many other companies moving some or all of their work forces from outlying areas to what used to be called, with negative implications, the “inner city.”
