Chi Pallets

Chicagoland pallets, mapped and priced

Map of nine Chicagoland counties with industrial corridors and intermodal rail rampsBlue IslandBlue IslandDolton (Yard Center)DoltonNorthlake (Global II)Northlake59th StreetBedford Park14th Street (Global I)14th Street47th Street47th Street63rd Street63rd StreetCalumetCalumetCiceroCiceroCorwithFranklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal)Franklin ParkHarvey (Gateway)HarveyJoliet (Global IV)Joliet (Global IV)LandersLogistics Park Chicago (LPC)Logistics Park ChicagoSchiller ParkSchiller ParkWillow SpringsWillow SpringsJolietJoliet10 miN
Nine counties, Chicago's 26 industrial corridors (pine) and 19 intermodal rail ramps (squares). Sources below.

Chi Pallets maps where pallets pile up across Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will and Kendall counties in Illinois and Lake and Porter counties in Indiana, and checks whether a load is worth a free pickup. Every page is built from a place or a dataset, with its sources listed.

107
Pallet and wood container plants in the nine counties (2024) [1]
590
Warehousing establishments, 58,617 jobs where disclosed (2024) [1]
19
Intermodal rail ramps [2]
26
City of Chicago industrial corridors [3]

The price sheet

Price sheet coming. A monthly sheet of asking prices by grade and county, with the listing count and method shown, is in preparation. No prices appear on this site until it is ready. What it will show.

Counties

Pallet plants and warehouses by county (BLS QCEW, 2024)
CountyPallet plantsWarehousesTown pages
Cook County, IL51238101
DuPage County, IL1011028
Kane County, IL173815
Lake County, IL52830
McHenry County, IL81318
Will County, IL1012822
Kendall County, IL176
Lake County, IN41816
Porter County, IN1104

Most industrial suburbs

Largest Chicago corridors

All 59 Chicago community areas and every corridor.

Sources

  1. BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. Private ownership. Establishment counts and average employment by county and NAICS industry. Employment the BLS withholds for confidentiality is shown as not disclosed.
  2. BTS National Transportation Atlas Database: Intermodal Freight Facilities, Rail TOFC/COFC. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, compiled 2018 and updated July 2022. Distances are straight-line miles from the place's internal point to the facility point.
  3. City of Chicago: Boundaries, Industrial Corridors (current). Chicago Data Portal, January 2013 corridor boundaries (data table 3tu3-iesz). The City has since revised parts of some corridors under its Industrial Corridor Modernization work; this map shows the published dataset.
  4. CMAP Community Data Snapshots 2026. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Population from the 2020 Census (P.L. 94-171); jobs located in the place from LEHD 2023 (primary jobs); private-sector jobs from IDES Where Workers Work 2025; land use from the CMAP 2023 Land Use Inventory; industrial equalized assessed value from the Illinois Department of Revenue, 2024.
  5. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 2023. 1:500,000 county and place boundaries, simplified for the maps. Bordering towns are those whose boundaries come within about 0.1 mile of each other.
  6. Natural Earth 1:10m lakes. Lake Michigan outline for the maps. Public domain.

Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.