Architectural Distributors Inc

In 1948, John Oremus founded Prairie Material with three trucks and a load of stone. Prairie Material is one of the Midwest's largest family-owned and managed producers of ready-mix concrete and building materials. The company has four divisions that serve customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. It supplies products such as ready-mix concrete, face and paving brick and aggregate. Prairie Material has a location in Bridgeview, Ill.

Bricks Incorporated, founded in 1978, is one of the largest brick distributors in Chicago. The company offers products from a variety of manufacturers, including the Brick People, Interstate Brick, the Stone Creek Brick Company, Summit Brick and Tile, Summitville, Lakewood Brick Company, Marion Ceramics, and Universal Brick Systems. It maintains an inventory of between 10 - 12 million clay masonry units, and a fleet of boom six-wheel trucks and pup combinations complimented by tractor and trailer combinations and all-terrain forklifts. The company s list of projects includes Loyola University, Heritage Woods, Geneva Fire Station, Attea School, and Hillcrest Elementary School. Bricks Incorporated serves architects, general contractors, mason subcontractors, and homeowners. The company has showrooms in Chicago, Aurora and Rockford, Ill., and Milwaukee.