In 2021, Seigle’s celebrates 140 years since the founding! This means Seigle’s was established in 1881, just more than 100 years after the Declaration of Independence. Quite an accomplishment for a family-owned business! A few highlights from our “century plus 2 score” history: 1881: The Founding. The world looked a lot different when Seigle’s was Read more…
Seigle’s was founded as the Elgin Lumber Company in 1881. (Check out what Elgin was like back then!). Over time the family-owned company grew to become one of the top 50 building materials dealers nationwide. No other supplier in the Chicago market rivaled the scope and breadth of Seigle’s. In 2005, Stock Building Supply acquired Read more…
When Seigle’s was first founded as the Elgin Lumber Company, the world looked quite different. It was all the way back in 1881, just more than 100 years after the Declaration of Independence. At the time, the Borden dairy family was based in the Elgin area. Members of the Borden family and other prominent Elgin Read more…
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