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Packaging materials distributor Uline has announced its second big expansion in Kenosha County in less than two months — a move that will take the company out of Illinois entirely and add 475 jobs in Wisconsin.

The Pleasant Prairie-based firm said it will relocate its Midwest distribution business from Waukegan, Ill., to a 60,000-square-foot office building and a distribution center of 1 million square feet on 200 acres at the corner of Highway 142 and I-94, across the freeway from where Amazon.com is building a large distribution center.

The office building will house the company's largest call center and its Midwest sales force, Uline said. The new distribution center will ship products to customers in the Midwest. The site, which initially will have 200 office jobs and 275 warehouse positions, allows for doubling the size of facilities in the future, the company said.

Construction is expected to begin next spring.

"Uline has deep roots in the State of Illinois. In fact, the company was founded in Illinois 34 years ago," Phil Hunt, executive vice president, said in a statement. "The family did not want to move out of Illinois. However, we could not find a large enough site that was shovel-ready. All of the sites we looked at had serious challenges that could not be resolved quickly enough to meet our time line."

While acknowledging state, Kenosha County, City of Kenosha and Town of Paris officials and the Kenosha Area Business Alliance as instrumental in working together to resolve any issues to make the site ready for the project, Hunt said Uline never sought nor was granted any public funds for it.

Company spokesman Bill Broydrick said Friday he didn't have a cost estimate for the project, but said it would be in the tens of millions of dollars.

"Our Midwest distribution center has stayed in Waukegan and we've outgrown it," Broydrick said.

The announcement comes only six weeks after Uline said it would double the size of its Pleasant Prairie corporate campus, adding 500 jobs. That expansion includes a second 1-million-square-foot warehouse and a second corporate office building of 200,000 square feet.

Uline is spending about $100 million on that part of its expansion, which the company said also will receive no public funding. However, the company is receiving up to $18.6 million in state aid for the earlier move of its headquarters to Wisconsin from Illinois. The Uline campus is located just west of I-94 and south of Highway 165.

Construction is to begin this summer on the new Pleasant Prairie distribution center, with work on the new office building to begin this fall. The project is expected to be done by the fall of 2015.

"Our total employment in Wisconsin will be approximately 1,500 when all of our plans are executed," Broydrick said.

Uline has more than 4,000 employees and 10 distribution centers in North America.