2006 - Rand McNally celebrates 150 years of excellence in printing and innovation.

2004 - Rand McNally acquires Perly's Maps in Toronto, Canada and adds another illustrious line to the Rand McNally Canada portfolio.

2003 - Time® magazine names randmcnally.com as one of its "50 Best Websites."

2003 - The 2004 Large Scale Motor Carriers' Road Atlas launches, featuring maps that are 32 percent larger than standard Motor Carriers' Road Atlas maps. The new atlas also offers no-glare, water-resistant, and tear-resistant pages.

2003 - The company releases Mobile Travel Tools™, a full-color, richly rendered maps-and-directions application for wireless phones.

2002 - Rand McNally-TDM launches trucking.randmcnally.com and enhances its product line to provide even better solutions for the commercial trucking industry.

2000 - The best-selling Road Atlas line is given a major overhaul in design and features for the 2001 editions, giving the atlases a bold new look and features including Best of the Road™ and Express Access Codes. The Road Atlas Expansion Card is released, putting the Road Atlas on Palm™ OS handhelds.

2000 - The randmcnally.com website is revamped with personalized trip planning and an enhanced online Travel Store with more than 4,500 products.

1999 - Rand McNally acquires Thomas Bros. Maps®, bringing the two leading map publishers together. The Thomas Guide® is extremely popular throughout California at the time.

1999- Rand McNally-TDM introduces IntelliRoute™, the most advanced trucking database in North America.

1998 - The Rand McNally Road Atlas Deluxe Edition is introduced, adding shaded relief terrain to the maps for the first time.

1997 - A private investment firm purchases Rand McNally from the McNally family. The Rand McNally Travel Store, the world's most comprehensive online travel store, is launched on the company website.

1997 - The company's website, randmcnally.com is launched, offering up-to-date information on road construction and weather, online reservations, shopping, and many other services.

1996 - Building on the success of TripMaker®, the company introduces StreetFinder® street navigation software.

1995 - The company develops and patents EasyFinder® laminated maps that are easy to unfold and refold.

1994 - Rand McNally introduces TripMaker® software for travel planning on personal computers. It becomes a market leader and wins serveral awards.

1993 - Rand McNally acquires Allmaps Canada Limited, a leading producer of consumer and business-to-business maps and atlases. This company will become Rand McNally Canada.

1993 - The Road Atlas becomes the first Rand McNally product created using an all-digital method. The new technology produces the same high-quality cartography while reducing production costs.

1989 - Rand McNally expands its Map & Travel Store retail operations.

1986 - Thomas Bros. Maps implements digital mapping to create its products.

1984 - Rand McNally acquires the assets of Denoyer-Geppert Company, a leading school map and globe publisher.

1980 - Rand McNally acquires a small company called Transportation Data Management (TDM). TDM marries Rand McNally’s enormous map database to an electronic system for delivery of routing and mileage information to the trucking industries.

1980 - Thomas Bros. Maps relocates to Irvine, California.

1974 - Andrew McNally IV succeeds his father as president.

1969 - The first edition of The New International Atlas is published by a historic cooperative project of an international group of mapmaking firms led by Rand McNally. The atlas includes maps utilizing the Robinson Projection, created for Rand McNally by renowned cartography professor Arthur H. Robinson.

1969 - Rand McNally's Book Manufacturing Division automates the process by which thumb indexes are cut and labeled for dictionaries and encyclopedias.

1960 - The first full-color Rand McNally Road Atlas premieres.

1953 - Rand McNally revolutionizes the industry by becoming the first commercial mapmaker to adopt the scribing process to make maps. The ticket division produces the first pressure-sensitive railroad and airline tickets, which eliminate messy carbons.

1952 - Having outgrown its Chicago offices, the company moves its corporate headquarters to Skokie, Illinois.

1948 - Andrew McNally III becomes company president.

1947 - Rand McNally takes a chance on a little known, maverick Norwegian scientist named Thor Heyerdahl and publishes his book Kon-Tiki. It becomes a best-seller around the world.

1945 - Rand McNally creates a new carbonized ticket book that eliminates the bulky accordion-fold airline and train tickets.

1939 - Within 24 hours of Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, stores across the United States sell out of Rand McNally’s map of Europe.

1937 - Rand McNally opens its first Map & Travel Store in New York City.

1933 - Andrew McNally II becomes company president. Rand McNally inspires the stage name of "Sally Rand," the famous fan dancer and star of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

1927 - Noted aviator Charles Lindbergh uses Rand McNally railroad maps for navigation over land during his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1924 - The Rand McNally Auto Chum is published; it is the first edition of what will become the best-selling Rand McNally Road Atlas.

1923 - Rand McNally publishes the first edition of Goode's World Atlas (named after its first editor, Dr. J. Paul Goode). It becomes the standard geography text for high schools and colleges and continues today.

1917 - On a map of Peoria, Illinois, the company debuts a new highway numbering system that will become the model for the system used across the United States today.

1917 - The Real Mother Goose, which became one of the all-time best selling children’s books in the United States, is published.

1915 - Thomas Bros. Maps is founded in Oakland, California. Their distinctive page-and-grid system will help to make Thomas Guides® the "bible" for drivers on the West Coast.

1907 - Rand McNally assumes publication from G.S. Chapin of the Photo-Auto Guides, which combine maps and photos with overlaid arrows to indicate correct turns. Andrew McNally II (grandson of the original Andrew McNally) personally takes the pictures for the Chicago-to-Milwaukee edition while on his honeymoon!

1904 - Rand McNally’s first automobile road map, New Automobile Road Map of New York City & Vicinity, is published.

1899 - William Rand leaves the company to pursue other interests. Andrew McNally becomes President and his family runs the business for the next century.

1880 - The company ventures into educational publishing, offering a line of globes, maps, and geography textbooks. Around this same time, the first Rand McNally world atlas makes its appearance.

1876 - Rand McNally's Business Atlas debuts, later renamed the Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, which is still produced today.

1873 - Rand McNally is incorporated with William Rand as president and Andrew McNally as vice president.

1872 - The first-ever Rand McNally map appears in the December 1872 issue of the Railway Guide. Rand McNally uses a new wax engraving method, which significantly reduces the cost of printing maps.

1871 - As the Great Chicago Fire races through the city, Rand and McNally rescue two ticket printing machines by burying them in the sand! Three days later, the machines are up and running in rented space.

1870 - Rand McNally expands from printing into publishing with the introduction of business directories, railroad guides, and an illustrated newspaper, the People’s Weekly.

1869 - The first railroad guide, the Western Railway Guide, is published.

1868 - Andrew McNally and William Rand begin their partnership and establish Rand McNally & Company. They take over the Chicago Tribune’s job printing shop and agree to print tickets and timetables to serve Chicago's booming railroads, which are the nation’s premier railroad hub.

1858 - Irish immigrant Andrew McNally takes a job in Rand's printing shop for $9 a week.

1856 - William Rand opens a small printing shop in Chicago’s Loop, forming the precursor of Rand McNally.