About Us
As
an immigrant in the 1920s, Martin Loeber, Founder and Past Chairman of
Loeber Motors, came to Chicago with a dream: to make enough money to buy
a farm back in Germany. Having emigrated from Altenstaedt, Germany, he
began selling Chevrolets in 1928. He quickly earned enough to do so, but
fell in love with the car business and instead opened the doors of his
very first dealership in 1936 in downtown Chicago. Two generations
later, Loeber Motors is an impressive family automotive operation
boasting the largest combined Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, smart and
Sprinter retail and service facility in the Midwest.
In
2002, the Loeber family sold their downtown Chicago automotive
franchises and combined their efforts into one Mercedes-Benz location in
Lincolnwood, at 7101 North Lincoln Avenue. Michael Loeber, third
generation in the business, was named President of Loeber Motors and
immediately the plans for a brand new Mercedes-Benz facility began. “Our
goal was to provide our customers the most comfortable automotive
buying and service experience anywhere”, Michael Loeber commented.
In
October of 2005, Loeber debuted its brand new 80,000 square foot
Mercedes-Benz sales and service masterpiece located at 4255 West Touhy
Avenue in Lincolnwood. They tripled their Mercedes-Benz inventory and
unveiled the largest Mercedes-Benz facility in the Midwest in one fell
swoop. “We were so thrilled to open this facility in the heart of
Lincolnwood, where my family has been doing business for so many years”,
said Loeber.
Two
years later, they gutted the original building on Lincoln and with
careful attention to design detail and space allocation, created a
contemporary work of art " Loeber Motors Porsche. It currently holds
the distinction of the newest and largest Porsche sales and service
facility in the Midwest.
Once
smart debuted in the USA in January 2008, Loeber was selected to become
a smart dealer and quickly become one of the top five smart retail
operations in the United States. And in January 2010, Mercedes-Benz
awarded Loeber with a coveted Sprinter Commercial Van franchise, one of
only a few in Chicagoland.
The
Loeber family’s dedication to their customers is rivaled only by their
generous donations to the community. They fund the Leona Loeber
Memorial Cancer Research Library at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital,
which supports the melanoma research of Dr. Jon Richards. This research
laboratory provides the dedicated space and equipment necessary for Dr.
Richards’ valuable cancer research. In addition to numerous other
charities and worthwhile causes, Loeber provided monetary gifts as well
as their facility for the Village of Lincolnwood’s Hurricane Katrina
fundraiser in March 2006. “It was a beautiful evening of Opera and it
was our pleasure to support the Village of Lincolnwood and the people of
Gautier, Mississippi”, said Loeber.
Loeber
Motors currently occupies several blocks in the heart of Lincolnwood,
just five blocks from the city limits of Chicago and only minutes from
the North Shore.
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