Chicago Faucet

The Chicago Faucet Company, founded on the near west side of Chicago, Illinois, has been producing faucets and other plumbing fixtures since 1911. The company founder, Albert C. Brown, invented a valve in 1913 that worked with the flow of water that made it both easy to open and close the spigots and forestalled the development of leaks. In 2002 the Swiss Geberit Group acquired Chicago Faucet. Currently the Chicago Faucet Company has its headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois, and employs over 500 people in Des Plaines, Milwaukee, Elyria, Ohio, Michigan City, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama Chicago Faucet has sales in the neighborhood of $70 million a year