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Big Deals: How the Pilgrim’s Pride Offer for Hillshire Compares

By Sun-Times Wire

If completed, Pilgrim’s Pride’s $6.4 billion offer for Hillshire would be among the biggest deals involving an Illinois company in the past 13 years.

Scroll over the chart below to see deals involving Illinois companies since 2000 that have exceeded $1 billion in value, according to data provided by research firm FACTSET:

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