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The area reaches into Cook, DuPage, Grundy, McHenry, Will and DeKalb... counties.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":36},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24,28,32],[25,26,27],"Will","25,357","42.6 percent",[29,30,31],"Cook","16,057","26.9 percent",[33,34,35],"DuPage","8,368","14.0 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,67],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":66},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,50,54,58,62],[47,48,49],"60446","Romeoville","36",[51,52,53],"60638","Chicago","31",[55,56,57],"60436","Joliet","24",[59,60,61],"60440","Bolingbrook","22",[63,64,65],"60007","Elk Grove Village","20","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":68},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 133 establishments between them. 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The questions are what the pallet is made of, how it is cleaned, and what documents travel with it. It tends to lean on clean, washable stackable or nestable with a paperwork trail, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documents and the maker's cleaning guidance.",{"h2":122,"blocks":123},"The empty return",[124,126],{"t":10,"text":125},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 133 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Chicago sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 66,500 pallets. 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