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Key recruiter from suburbs helping Amazon add 2,000 Illinois jobs

Posted May 12, 2017 1:00 am

Chicago Sun-Times

Kathleen Carroll was a Marine Corps platoon commander in Kuwait and Iraq. Now, Carroll, who grew up in Lincolnshire, heads Amazon's recruitment efforts, which keeps her about as busy.

Amazon plans to hire 2,000 Illinois workers over the next 14 months, pushing the online retail giant's employment statewide to 7,000, according to Caroll.

The hiring for full-time jobs is to be spread across nine Amazon fulfillment centers, the company's downtown corporate office at 227 W. Monroe, its Lake View bookstore, an AmazonFresh site and a University of Illinois-Chicago campus pickup service. The fulfillment centers in the Chicago area are on Goose Island and in Joliet and Romeoville, with two more in Aurora and one each in Monee and Waukegan under construction.

Carroll says building the company in Chicago has special meaning for her. Beside growing up in the suburbs, she lived at times as a young adult in Lincoln Park and downtown.

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