Illinois

Cook County

State	Illinois
Land area	956 sq mi (map estimate)
Town pages	101
Industry data	BLS QCEW 2024

Cook County (filled) with town boundaries and intermodal rail ramps (squares).

The BLS counted 51 private establishments making wood pallets and containers in Cook County in 2024, employing an average of 937 people, alongside 238 warehousing and storage establishments with 16,644 jobs. CMAP's 2023 inventory counts 37,140 acres of industrial land, 6.1% of the county. 16 intermodal rail ramps sit inside the county.

Pallet and wood container plants (NAICS 321920, 2024)^[1]

238

Warehousing establishments, 16,644 jobs^[1]

5,448

Manufacturing establishments, 176,781 jobs^[1]

37,140

Industrial acres, 6.1% of land (CMAP 2023)^[2]

Intermodal rail ramps^[3]

Industries that ship on pallets

Private establishments and jobs in Cook County, 2024 annual averages
Industry (NAICS)	Establishments	Jobs	Share of private jobs
Wood container and pallet manufacturing 321920	51	937	0%
Food manufacturing 311	842	40,311	1.8%
Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing 312	109	1,613	0.1%
Paper manufacturing 322	110	8,214	0.4%
Printing and related support activities 323	459	7,688	0.3%
Chemical manufacturing 325	322	10,099	0.4%
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326	185	8,149	0.4%
Primary metal manufacturing 331	109	5,897	0.3%
Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332	909	27,049	1.2%
Machinery manufacturing 333	471	10,182	0.4%
Warehousing and storage 4931	238	16,644	0.7%
Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers 4244	765	23,257	1%
General freight trucking 4841	5954	25,086	1.1%

"Not disclosed" means the BLS withheld the figure to protect individual employers.

Cook County price row

Price sheet coming. The Cook County row of the Chicagoland pallet price sheet will appear here once the first monthly sheet is published. Until then this page shows no prices. What the sheet will show.

Towns

Corridors

Rail ramps

Blue Island (IAIS)
Dolton (Yard Center) (UP)
Northlake (Global II) (UP)
59th Street (CSX)
Bedford Park (CSX)
14th Street (Global I) (UP)
47th Street (NS)
63rd Street (NS)
Calumet (NS)
Cicero (BNSF)
Corwith (BNSF)
Franklin Park (Bensenville Intermodal Terminal) (CP)
Harvey (Gateway) (CN)
Landers (NS)
Schiller Park (CP)
Willow Springs (BNSF)

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Sources

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. Private ownership. Establishment counts and average employment by county and NAICS industry. Employment the BLS withholds for confidentiality is shown as not disclosed.
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.
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.