City of Chicago
Chicago, by community area
Chicago's pallets pile up where its industry is: along the City's 26 designated industrial corridors, which cover 17,104 acres in the City's dataset, and around the rail ramps on the South and West Sides. This page lists the 59 community areas with a City corridor inside them or at least 25 acres of industrial land in CMAP's 2023 inventory.
59
Community areas with a page [2]
8,497
Industrial acres in all 77 areas (2023) [1]
26
City industrial corridors [3]
16
Intermodal rail ramps in Cook County [4]
| Community area | Industrial acres | Share | Jobs (2023) | Corridors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New City | 723 | 23.4% | 12,260 | Stockyards |
| South Deering | 719 | 10.3% | 9,870 | Calumet, Burnside |
| Lower West Side | 512 | 27.3% | 19,433 | Pilsen, Western / Ogden, Little Village |
| South Lawndale | 486 | 16.6% | 12,682 | Little Village, Western / Ogden |
| Austin | 472 | 10.3% | 13,171 | Roosevelt/Cicero, Armitage, Northwest |
| Hegewisch | 411 | 12.3% | 1,416 | Calumet |
| Pullman | 357 | 26.3% | 2,868 | Pullman, Burnside |
| Archer Heights | 339 | 26.4% | 8,938 | Stevenson, Brighton Park, Little Village |
| Humboldt Park | 330 | 14.3% | 7,335 | Northwest, Kinzie |
| Brighton Park | 261 | 15% | 5,935 | Stevenson, Brighton Park, Little Village |
| Near West Side | 256 | 7% | 151,808 | Kinzie, Western / Ogden, Pilsen |
| Riverdale | 220 | 9.8% | 845 | Pullman |
| North Lawndale | 216 | 10.5% | 4,958 | Roosevelt/Cicero, Western / Ogden |
| West Lawn | 207 | 11% | 7,487 | Greater Southwest |
| West Town | 187 | 6.4% | 38,277 | North Branch, Kinzie |
| Gage Park | 162 | 11.5% | 4,313 | Brighton Park |
| McKinley Park | 161 | 17.8% | 6,216 | Stockyards, Pilsen |
| Bridgeport | 149 | 11.2% | 4,879 | Stockyards, Pilsen |
| Ashburn | 140 | 4.5% | 3,976 | Greater Southwest |
| Clearing | 123 | 7.5% | 2,614 | Harlem |
| Burnside | 120 | 30.7% | 1,955 | Burnside |
| Garfield Ridge | 115 | 4.3% | 14,732 | Stevenson, Little Village |
| Hermosa | 111 | 14.9% | 3,880 | Pulaski, Northwest |
| East Side | 110 | 5.8% | 1,562 | Calumet |
| Belmont Cragin | 108 | 4.3% | 8,353 | Armitage, Northwest |
| Avondale | 100 | 7.9% | 9,418 | Addison, Kennedy, Pulaski |
| Logan Square | 90 | 3.9% | 18,319 | North Branch, Pulaski |
| Near North Side | 77 | 4.4% | 186,875 | North Branch |
| North Center | 75 | 5.8% | 9,778 | Addison, Ravenswood |
| East Garfield Park | 72 | 5.8% | 4,246 | Kinzie, Western / Ogden |
| North Park | 69 | 4.3% | 6,349 | Peterson |
| West Pullman | 64 | 2.8% | 1,065 | West Pullman |
| Morgan Park | 64 | 3% | 3,330 | |
| Irving Park | 58 | 2.8% | 9,669 | Knox |
| Chicago Lawn | 58 | 2.6% | 3,419 | Greater Southwest |
| Jefferson Park | 53 | 3.6% | 5,680 | Elston / Armstrong, Northwest Highway |
| Auburn Gresham | 52 | 2.2% | 2,830 | Greater Southwest |
| Rogers Park | 50 | 4.2% | 11,375 | |
| West Garfield Park | 41 | 4.9% | 3,407 | Northwest, Roosevelt/Cicero |
| West Englewood | 41 | 2% | 1,342 | |
| Chatham | 40 | 2.1% | 3,066 | |
| Lincoln Square | 39 | 2.4% | 9,608 | Ravenswood |
| Greater Grand Crossing | 38 | 1.7% | 2,671 | |
| West Elsdon | 36 | 4.7% | 1,429 | Brighton Park, Stevenson |
| Washington Heights | 36 | 2% | 1,459 | |
| South Chicago | 34 | 1.6% | 2,354 | Calumet |
| Ohare | 33 | 0.4% | 49,836 | |
| Dunning | 28 | 1.2% | 5,169 | Wright Business Park |
| Fuller Park | 22 | 4.8% | 1,318 | Stockyards |
| Portage Park | 17 | 0.7% | 7,140 | Knox |
| Montclare | 16 | 2.6% | 2,058 | Armitage |
| Calumet Heights | 15 | 1.3% | 1,793 | Burnside |
| Lincoln Park | 14 | 0.7% | 23,145 | North Branch |
| Norwood Park | 14 | 0.5% | 10,098 | Northwest Highway |
| Armour Square | 14 | 2.3% | 5,283 | Pilsen |
| Forest Glen | 10 | 0.5% | 4,212 | Elston / Armstrong, Peterson |
| Lake View | 9 | 0.5% | 25,220 | Ravenswood |
| Edison Park | 9 | 1.2% | 2,470 | Northwest Highway |
| Uptown | 7 | 0.5% | 11,193 | Ravenswood |
Areas without a page
These community areas have no City industrial corridor and under 25 acres of industrial land, so they don't get a page: Albany Park, Avalon Park, Beverly, Douglas, Edgewater, Englewood, Grand Boulevard, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Loop, Mount Greenwood, Near South Side, Oakland, Roseland, South Shore, Washington Park, West Ridge, Woodlawn. Their ZIP codes still work on the Load Line.
City industrial corridors
- Addison
- Armitage
- Brighton Park
- Burnside
- Calumet
- Elston / Armstrong
- Greater Southwest
- Harlem
- Kennedy
- Kinzie
- Knox
- Little Village
- North Branch
- Northwest
- Peterson
- Pilsen
- Pulaski
- Pullman
- Ravenswood
- Roosevelt / Cicero
- Stevenson
- Stockyards
- West Pullman
- Western / Ogden
- Northwest Highway
- Wright Business Park
Sources
- 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.
- City of Chicago: Boundaries, Community Areas. Chicago Data Portal.
- 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.
- 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.
Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.