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James Liautaud, a bigger-than-life Elgin-area industrialist, artist and business theorist whose son founded the Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches chain, afresh died at age 79, his ancestors has reported.
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Sports Car Company, Inc. Serving La Jolla, New, Used Cars ... | jim lyons sports car companyLiautaud, who had lived in Hoffman Estates and afterwards Cary, died Oct. 23 at the ancestors berth in the North Woods of Wisconsin, according to a full-page ad announcement his afterlife in the Chicago Tribune.
During a career aboriginal active several Elgin accomplishment companies and afterwards teaching business access on the academy level, Liautaud had emphasized application methodical processes to accomplish tasks in business — an access he alleged process-designed training. And as the ancestor of the K40 alarm detector and the organizer of Cannonball Run contest forth I-90 during the 1970s and 1980s, his activity generally showed an amore for fast active — a yen that one of his sons carries on today in a fast-growing civic restaurant business.
After confined in the Army in Korea, Liautaud becoming a amount in automated engineering from the University of Illinois. While at the university, he met his approaching wife "Gina" Gudaityte Liautaud, who survives him afterwards 54 years of marriage.
Liautaud's absorption in business processes reportedly began back he again went to assignment affairs books aperture to aperture for the Grolier's Encyclopedia company. Liautaud would afterwards say, "I accustomed that all success was a byproduct of a action that accustomed me to do my best every day. I abstruse to acquisition and focus on a accurate process, rather than the win, alive the wins were artlessly a byproduct of accomplishing all the things appropriate every day."
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Sports Car Company, Inc. Serving La Jolla, New, Used Cars ... | jim lyons sports car companyIn the backward 1960s, he become a avant-garde in a new technology alleged blended abstraction and accustomed an action to become admiral and co-owner of the Capsonic Group, a plastics and electronics accomplishment close in Elgin that acclimated this technology. Over the abutting few years he would alpha added firms in Elgin alleged the American Antenna Co., which fabricated accessories for the then-trendy citizens bandage radio industry, and K40 Electronics, which bogus a alarm detector advised to accord drivers a adventitious to breach the acceleration absolute afterwards active afield of the police.
According to his family, Liautaud accustomed 80 U.S. patents and abundant architecture awards during this period.
Another articulation amid Liautaud and fast active appeared in the account during the aboriginal 1980s. Five summers in a row, he and a club of adolescent self-made millionaires would accumulate in Elgin with their high-performance Porsches, Ferraris and Corvettes. They would booty off forth I-90 at 100 mph or faster in a 400-mile Cannonball Run-style car chase all the way up to the Duluth, Minn., or Hayward, Wis., areas. To abbreviate cartage tickets, the racers would alike align for a helicopter to fly aerial and acquaint area accompaniment troopers were lying in wait.
In 1986, they assuredly abiding with accompaniment authorities to run that year's Cannonball Run on a acknowledged base — basing the antagonism not on which CEO could drive the fastest but on which one could accomplish an boilerplate acceleration abutting to 52 mph.
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1969 Used Mercedes-Benz 280SL at Sports Car Company, Inc. Serving ... | jim lyons sports car companyLiautaud afterwards awash his business interests (which by again additionally included the Blue Rhino bottled-gas aggregation and two allowance firms) and abutting the adroitness of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Besides teaching there as a analytic professor, he able and created what became the Liautaud Business Academy at that university.
The four accouchement who survive him accommodate Jimmy John Liautaud, who additionally fabricated a mark in business while emphasizing fast driving.
When Jimmy John accelerating from Elgin Academy, his ancestor loaned him $25,000 to alpha a business of his own. Jimmy John acclimated that money to accessible a alms sandwich boutique aimed at academy acceptance in Charleston, anon to be abutting by sandwich shops in the academy towns of Macomb and Champaign.
Jimmy John began franchising the operation in 1994. Today Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches has developed to 2,000 locations beyond the country and is headquartered in Champaign.
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2002 Used BMW Z8 Roadster at Sports Car Company, Inc. Serving La ... | jim lyons sports car company"My dad accustomed me to do my best every day, and he accomplished me to assignment really, absolutely hard," Jimmy John said. "I admired and admired him, and now I absence him like crazy."
Thirty years afterwards his ancestor raced sports cars up the tollway to Wisconsin, Jimmy John's TV commercials now accent how fast the sandwich alternation can bear its food. One commercial, for example, shows the requested aliment actualization at a buyer's aperture afore the client alike hangs up the buzz he has been application to abode the order.
In 2008, Jimmy John additionally donated $1 actor to Elgin Academy on action that it rename the academy's aerial academy "the Liautaud-Lyons Upper School," in account of himself and a dean, Jim Lyons, who Jimmy John said helped assignment with him while he was a apprentice there in the 1980s.
Like father, like son.
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