Company History
Federal Record Storage MDMC has a long rich history as a fourth generation family owned business that spans nearly every major world event of the twenty-first century. The Federal story starts in 1913 when Clarence Ullman determined a need for public warehousing in Peoria, IL, and formed the corporation, Federal Warehouse Company. Initially in the public warehouse distribution business, in 1928, the corporate became a charter agent for Allied Van Lines, a consortium of moving companies formed by Martin Kennelly, the former mayor of Chicago prior to Richard Daley, Sr.
In 1969, Federal Warehouse Company acquired it's first branch in Danville, IL, and over the ensuing years, purchased seven more moving companies from Dallas, TX to Milwaukee, WI, including Elmhurst, IL servicing the Chicago area. During this transition period, the leadership of the company transformed from Jerome Ullman, Clarence's son to Richard Ullman, the founder's grandson. During the same time, Federal became a more diversified company, entering into the freight business with 48 state authority, expanding the international relocation services to become one of Allied Van Lines International's top volume agents, creating a motorcycle 48 state transportation service, which remains one of the industry leaders, as well as developing a record retention and document services division. Record retention service's rapid growth was due in part, to the company's proprietary software, which allowed greater flexibility to meet the customer's specific needs. With this growth, the facilities expanded including a modern, state of the art document storage facility in Glendale Heights, IL.
In 2000, Donald Ullman, Richard's brother, accepted chairmanship of the corporation and recognized the need for bringing in outside management talent to address the service and quality requirements that our customers had come to expect from the Federal Companies since it's inception.
In March of 2009, the Federal Companies went through another important transformation. The company was divided into two companies, the moving and storage and public warehousing side was bought by the existing management team whom have decades of experience in the industry and with Federal. The document storage side was purchased by Justin Ullman, great-grandson of Clarence Ullman.
Justin and his team continue to grow and expand the services of the division and now provide shredding, physical and electronic data storage, and document imaging to meet organization’s record retention requirements. For more information regarding the services of Federal Record Storage, you may reference the company website, http://www.FederalRS.com or contact (630)681-8670, (866)363-7913 or fax (630)681-8674.
