Where the docks are
Corridors
Two kinds of corridor page live here. The 26 Chicago corridors are the City's own designated industrial corridors, drawn from its open-data boundaries. The 21 suburban groupings are ours: neighbouring towns along the same interstates, grouped so you can see a freight district as a whole. They are not official designations.
City of Chicago industrial corridors
| No. | Corridor | Side | Acres | Nearest rail ramp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addison | North | 254 | 14th Street (Global I), 5.1 mi |
| 2 | Armitage | North | 411 | Cicero, 4.8 mi |
| 3 | Brighton Park | West | 400 | Corwith, 0.8 mi |
| 4 | Burnside | South | 329 | Calumet, 0.8 mi |
| 5 | Calumet | South | 4,197 | Calumet, 0.9 mi |
| 6 | Elston / Armstrong | North | 93 | Schiller Park, 5.3 mi |
| 7 | Greater Southwest | West | 1,023 | Landers, 0 mi |
| 8 | Harlem | West | 150 | Bedford Park, 0.9 mi |
| 9 | Kennedy | North | 84 | 14th Street (Global I), 5.6 mi |
| 10 | Kinzie | West | 831 | 14th Street (Global I), 1.7 mi |
| 11 | Knox | North | 149 | Schiller Park, 6.1 mi |
| 12 | Little Village | West | 1,252 | Corwith, 0.5 mi |
| 13 | North Branch | North | 761 | 14th Street (Global I), 2.7 mi |
| 14 | Northwest | North | 800 | 14th Street (Global I), 2.7 mi |
| 15 | Peterson | North | 126 | Schiller Park, 6.8 mi |
| 16 | Pilsen | West | 1,070 | 14th Street (Global I), 0.9 mi |
| 17 | Pulaski | North | 206 | 14th Street (Global I), 4.2 mi |
| 18 | Pullman | South | 692 | Calumet, 0.9 mi |
| 19 | Ravenswood | North | 130 | 14th Street (Global I), 6.5 mi |
| 20 | Roosevelt / Cicero | West | 598 | Cicero, 1.1 mi |
| 21 | Stevenson | West | 1,245 | Corwith, 0.2 mi |
| 22 | Stockyards | West | 1,498 | 47th Street, 0.5 mi |
| 23 | West Pullman | South | 192 | Blue Island, 1.1 mi |
| 24 | Western / Ogden | West | 421 | 14th Street (Global I), 0.1 mi |
| 25 | Northwest Highway | North | 143 | Schiller Park, 3.6 mi |
| 26 | Wright Business Park | North | 49 | Schiller Park, 3.8 mi |
Suburban freight groupings
| Grouping | Roads | Towns | Industrial acres | Nearest rail ramp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Hare and Elk Grove | I-90, I-294, I-490 | 6 | 5,099 | Schiller Park, 0.5 mi |
| Franklin Park and Northlake | I-294, I-290 | 7 | 2,751 | Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal), 0.8 mi |
| Itasca, Wood Dale and Addison | I-290, I-355, IL-390 | 6 | 3,682 | Northlake (Global II), 1.5 mi |
| I-55 Bolingbrook to Romeoville | I-55, I-355 | 7 | 9,665 | Joliet, 3.8 mi |
| I-80 Joliet to Minooka | I-80, I-55 | 6 | 6,187 | Joliet (Global IV), 2.5 mi |
| Elwood intermodal area | I-55, IL-53 | 4 | 5,999 | Logistics Park Chicago (LPC), 2.1 mi |
| I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley | I-88 | 6 | 5,791 | Willow Springs, 15 mi |
| Bedford Park and Clearing | I-55, I-294 | 7 | 4,362 | Bedford Park, 1.1 mi |
| Inner I-55: Cicero to Lyons | I-55, I-290 | 5 | 880 | Cicero, 0.1 mi |
| Alsip and Blue Island | I-294, I-57 | 6 | 1,979 | Blue Island, 0.5 mi |
| South suburbs on I-80 and I-94 | I-80, I-94, I-294 | 8 | 3,216 | Dolton (Yard Center), 1 mi |
| Chicago Heights to University Park | I-57, IL-394 | 7 | 3,587 | Harvey (Gateway), 5 mi |
| I-90 Elgin and Hoffman Estates | I-90 | 7 | 4,760 | Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal), 15.8 mi |
| West DuPage: Carol Stream to West Chicago | IL-59, IL-64 | 6 | 5,116 | Northlake (Global II), 8.5 mi |
| Lake County along I-94 | I-94, US-41 | 9 | 5,089 | Schiller Park, 11.7 mi |
| Skokie, Niles and Northbrook | I-94, I-294 | 6 | 1,842 | Schiller Park, 5.3 mi |
| McHenry County: Route 31 and US-14 | IL-31, US-14 | 7 | 4,301 | Schiller Park, 25.9 mi |
| Kendall County on the Fox River | US-34, IL-47 | 4 | 1,936 | Joliet, 17.6 mi |
| Hammond to Gary lakefront | I-90, I-94, I-80 | 5 | n/a (Indiana) | Calumet, 5.3 mi |
| I-65 Merrillville and Crown Point | I-65, US-30 | 6 | n/a (Indiana) | Dolton (Yard Center), 9.6 mi |
| Portage, Burns Harbor and Valparaiso | I-94, I-80, US-30 | 4 | n/a (Indiana) | Calumet, 22 mi |
Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.