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McCook is home to a large amount of heavy industry, including portions of Vulcan Materials Company McCook Quarry, UOP, and the Electro-Motive Diesel ( EMD ) railroad locomotive plant.

Known as the LaGrange plant for its mailing address ( McCook does not have its own post office ), EMD produced most of their locomotives there from 1935 to 1991, when parent company General Motors moved all final-assembly operations to London, Ontario.

The LaGrange plant now manufactures locomotive parts only, but EMD is considering resuming locomotive production there, so that they can reenter the passenger locomotive business, as federal funding cannot be used to purchase foreign-built locomotives.