Suburban freight grouping

I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley

County	Kane, Kendall, DuPage
Roads	I-88
Rail ramps	Willow Springs (15 mi) Joliet (15.5 mi)
Defined by	Chi Pallets grouping

Towns in I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley (filled), county lines (dashed) and rail ramps (squares).

I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley groups 6 neighbouring towns along I-88: Aurora, North Aurora, Montgomery, Batavia, Sugar Grove and Naperville. Together they hold 5,791 acres of industrial land (CMAP 2023) and 174,415 jobs (LEHD 2023). The closest intermodal rail ramp is Willow Springs, 15 mi away.

Towns in this grouping

5,791

Industrial acres combined (2023)^[1]

174,415

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

411,014

Residents, July 2024 estimate^[2]

15 mi

To Willow Springs rail ramp^[3]

Towns in I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley
Town	County
Aurora	Kane
North Aurora	Kane
Montgomery	Kendall
Batavia	Kane
Sugar Grove	Kane
Naperville	DuPage

Rail ramps near I-88 Aurora and the Fox Valley

Closest intermodal rail ramps (straight-line miles from the nearest edge)
Ramp	Distance
Willow Springs	15 mi
Joliet	15.5 mi
Northlake (Global II)	16.4 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.