04 / 1840

A store Lincoln
already knew.

Six entries, one hundred and eighty-six years. The line of the house from the first store to the last sale.

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Folio 04 · The line1840 — 2026

Jacob Bunn opens a grocery in Springfield.

Jacob Bunn

The store becomes Bunn Capitol Wholesale Grocery.

The house

George R. Bunn starts a beverage-equipment division.

George R. Bunn

Bunn-O-Matic is incorporated apart from the grocery house.

The split

SYSCO buys the foodservice assets — more than 8,000 items across Illinois.

SYSCO

Ali Group buys the equipment company. A different door from this ledger.

Ali Group

The urn is the only thing both doors would recognise.

Eighteen forty is not a founding date. It is the first line in a book that was never closed.Ledger, folio 04

The city