Suburban freight grouping

Franklin Park and Northlake

County	Cook
Roads	I-294, I-290
Rail ramps	Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal) (0.8 mi) Northlake (Global II) (1.2 mi)
Defined by	Chi Pallets grouping

Towns in Franklin Park and Northlake (filled), county lines (dashed) and rail ramps (squares).

Franklin Park and Northlake groups 7 neighbouring towns along I-294 and I-290: Franklin Park, Northlake, Melrose Park, Stone Park, River Grove, Hillside and Broadview. Together they hold 2,751 acres of industrial land (CMAP 2023) and 62,220 jobs (LEHD 2023). Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal), an intermodal rail ramp, sits at the edge of it.

Towns in this grouping

2,751

Industrial acres combined (2023)^[1]

62,220

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

85,337

Residents, July 2024 estimate^[2]

0.8 mi

To Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal) rail ramp^[3]

Towns in Franklin Park and Northlake
Town	County
Franklin Park	Cook
Northlake	Cook
Melrose Park	Cook
Stone Park	Cook
River Grove	Cook
Hillside	Cook
Broadview	Cook

Rail ramps near Franklin Park and Northlake

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal)	0.8 mi
Northlake (Global II)	1.2 mi
Schiller Park	2.1 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.