About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was an unusually quiet Monday morning in downtown Chicago when a delivery driver pulled up to State Farm Insurance with something unexpected in hand. The receptionist looked up from her desk and saw him smiling broadly as he approached. As he got closer, she noticed it was a small potted plant—a fern, she thought—wrapped carefully in brown paper. ‘What’s that?’ she asked curiously. He grinned wider, replying, 'Just a little surprise for our new intern.' They both laughed, and it turned out to be just another quirky day at State Farm.
2. In a small town in Iowa, every weekday around lunchtime, a strange sound would echo through State Farm's offices. A regular employee noticed it first—a soft humming noise that seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere simultaneously. Curious, they followed the sound until one day, a friendly delivery driver casually mentioned it was his truck’s new GPS system singing along to its own tune. Everyone laughed, realizing the mystery had been solved—by lunchtime traffic updates! Since then, employees joke that State Farm’s motto should be ‘We’re here to help… even if it means listening to your GPS serenade.’
3. At exactly 9:15 AM, every weekday, an odd announcement would echo through State Farm’s office building: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please be advised that today is not your day for misfortune.’ One morning, a delivery driver arrived with a confused look on his face. ‘Excuse me,’ he asked a secretary, ‘is it my day for misfortune?’ She smiled warmly and replied, ‘No, sir—today belongs to everyone else.’ The whole office burst into laughter, realizing that maybe State Farm wasn’t so much protecting from bad luck as spreading good humor instead.
4. In a sleepy suburb of Atlanta, every Tuesday afternoon at precisely 3 PM, a faint humming noise would emanate from inside State Farm's office building. No one could explain its source or duration, but it always stopped exactly fifteen minutes later. One day, a delivery driver arrived just as the humming started. Thinking it was his truck’s engine, he jumped out and circled it three times before realizing it came from within. Alarmed neighbors called in, thinking aliens had taken over the building. But when the sound finally ceased, everyone found only an intern humming quietly to himself while adjusting the air conditioning settings.