Suburban freight grouping

Alsip and Blue Island

County	Cook
Roads	I-294, I-57
Rail ramps	Blue Island (0.5 mi) Dolton (Yard Center) (3.7 mi)
Defined by	Chi Pallets grouping

Towns in Alsip and Blue Island (filled), county lines (dashed) and rail ramps (squares).

Alsip and Blue Island groups 6 neighbouring towns along I-294 and I-57: Alsip, Blue Island, Crestwood, Chicago Ridge, Oak Lawn and Calumet Park. Together they hold 1,979 acres of industrial land (CMAP 2023) and 51,632 jobs (LEHD 2023). Blue Island, an intermodal rail ramp, sits at the edge of it.

Towns in this grouping

1,979

Industrial acres combined (2023)^[1]

51,632

Jobs located in these towns (2023)^[1]

128,168

Residents, July 2024 estimate^[2]

0.5 mi

To Blue Island rail ramp^[3]

Towns in Alsip and Blue Island
Town	County
Alsip	Cook
Blue Island	Cook
Crestwood	Cook
Chicago Ridge	Cook
Oak Lawn	Cook
Calumet Park	Cook

Rail ramps near Alsip and Blue Island

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Blue Island	0.5 mi
Dolton (Yard Center)	3.7 mi
Bedford Park	4.1 mi

Intermodal ramps are where containers and trailers move between rail and truck. Distance to one is a rough guide to how close an area sits to container freight. It is not a measure of pallet supply, and this site does not treat it as one.

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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.
Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates. Subcounty resident population estimates, July 1, 2024 (file sub-est2024.csv).
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.
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.