Box supply for Chicago shippers
Chicago's box buyers sit along its freight corridors. Will County alone had 25,357 warehousing jobs in 2025, ahead of Cook County at 16,057; the metro total was 59,586. Romeoville ZIP 60446 had the most warehousing establishments.
What Chicago buyers order
Distribution buildings in Romeoville, Joliet and Bolingbrook want stock RSC ranges. The metro's 21,442 pharmaceutical jobs, 2.1 times the national share, want plain shipping cases; grocery wholesale (35,891 jobs) and chemicals (40,767) want cases and double wall.
Where the warehouses are
Elk Grove Village near O'Hare and the 60638 ZIP by Midway round out the busiest warehouse ZIPs. Rail and truck freight meet here, so many buildings run tight receiving windows; give us yours.
Boxes for Chicago: ask for a price
Give the delivery ZIP, each inside size with its grade and count, and any receiving window or dock limit.
- Inside size
- length x width x depth, in inches
- Style
- RSC, full overlap, telescope, die-cut or bulk
- Wall and grade
- read it off the stamp on your current box
- Count
- boxes per order, and how often you reorder
- Packed weight
- box plus contents
- ZIP
- where the boxes are delivered
After you send it
- We reply by email, usually with questions first if anything is unclear
- You confirm the specification, and a sample or drawing if it is a new design
- We send the price, the delivery window and the count tolerance
- On approval the order is scheduled and shipped to your dock
Worth knowing in Chicago
Chicago is also a manufacturing city. Food plants on the South and West Sides, candy and snack makers, metal fabricators in the suburbs and printing companies all buy cartons alongside the distribution buildings out in Will County. Their needs vary widely: a confectioner wants consistent, clean cases for retail; a fabricator wants heavy double wall for dense parts. A single quote request can cover several such needs.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 13 counties of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro area, among them Cook, DuPage, Grundy and McHenry, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 60446 Romeoville, 60638 Chicago, 60436 Joliet, 60440 Bolingbrook and 60007 Elk Grove Village, and the most warehousing jobs are in Will, Cook and DuPage counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: Plain, consistent shipping cases on a fixed specification
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
- Grocery and related product wholesale: Mixed cases and repack cartons for store deliveries
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.