Suburban freight grouping

Bedford Park and Clearing

County	Cook
Roads	I-55, I-294
Rail ramps	Bedford Park (1.1 mi) Willow Springs (1.2 mi)
Defined by	Chi Pallets grouping

Towns in Bedford Park and Clearing (filled), county lines (dashed) and rail ramps (squares).

Bedford Park and Clearing groups 7 neighbouring towns along I-55 and I-294: Bedford Park, Bridgeview, Summit, Hodgkins, McCook, Justice and Willow Springs. Together they hold 4,362 acres of industrial land (CMAP 2023) and 54,948 jobs (LEHD 2023). The closest intermodal rail ramp is Bedford Park, 1.1 mi away.

Towns in this grouping

4,362

Industrial acres combined (2023)^[1]

54,948

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

47,693

Residents, July 2024 estimate^[2]

1.1 mi

To Bedford Park rail ramp^[3]

Towns in Bedford Park and Clearing
Town	County
Bedford Park	Cook
Bridgeview	Cook
Summit	Cook
Hodgkins	Cook
McCook	Cook
Justice	Cook
Willow Springs	Cook

Rail ramps near Bedford Park and Clearing

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Bedford Park	1.1 mi
Willow Springs	1.2 mi
Landers	4.5 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.