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1942 – present
Founded: The modern pass of the Businesses record carried the factories and the stores; the professional firms of scale went unprofiled, and the largest of them stands here. Crowe was established in South Bend in 1942 by two men whose work already ran through the city's institutions: Fred P. Crowe Sr., a public accountant who had served eight years as St. Joseph County auditor, and Cletus F. Chizek, head of the accounting department at Notre Dame. The firm was Crowe Chizek. After Fred Crowe Sr.'s death in 1952, Chizek reorganized it as Crowe, Chizek and Company, with M. Mendel Piser and Fred P. Crowe Jr. becoming partners; the first legal partnership was formed in 1962 with six founding partners.
The course: The South Bend firm grew into a national one in steps its own histories date: it joined Horwath International in 1991; on 1 September 2008 it renamed itself Crowe Horwath LLP; in 2018 it dropped the Horwath name and became Crowe LLP. Its headquarters now stand in Chicago.
Sources:
- Michiana Jewish Historical Society, the society's account of the firm — the 1942 South Bend founding by Fred P. Crowe Sr. and Cletus F. Chizek, their posts at the county and the university, and the firm's present scale.
- Crowe LLP, the firm's published histories and look book — the 1952 reorganization, the 1962 partnership, Horwath International in 1991, the 2008 and 2018 names, and the Chicago headquarters.