City of Chicago industrial corridor 5

05 Calumet

County	Cook
Region	South Side
Rail ramps	Calumet (0.9 mi) Dolton (Yard Center) (2.9 mi)
Defined by	City of Chicago

Calumet corridor (filled) with other City corridors (pine), community areas and rail ramps (squares).

Calumet is one of the City of Chicago's 26 designated industrial corridors, number 5 in the South region, at 4,197 acres in the City's dataset. It runs through South Deering, Hegewisch, East Side and South Chicago. Calumet, an intermodal rail ramp, sits at the edge of it.

4,197

Acres in the City's corridor dataset^[1]

Community areas it crosses^[2]

ZIP codes it touches^[3]

0.9 mi

To Calumet rail ramp^[4]

Community areas crossed by Calumet
Community area	Corridor acres inside
South Deering	2,982
Hegewisch	651
East Side	511
South Chicago	48

ZIP codes that touch the corridor: 60617, 60633, 60628.

Rail ramps near Calumet

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Calumet	0.9 mi
Dolton (Yard Center)	2.9 mi
Blue Island	3.9 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

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.
City of Chicago: Boundaries, Community Areas. Chicago Data Portal.
City of Chicago: Boundaries, ZIP Codes. Chicago Data Portal. A ZIP is listed for a community area when it covers at least 10% of the area.
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.
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.