Back in the late 1880's Chicago was recognized as a transportation hub for distributing merchandise to every corner of the nation. A centralized point that was accessible by road, rail, and ship, the city soon began to grow and has been a commercial and industrial hub for the transportation of people, products, and raw materials for the past century and a half. From the access of Lake Michigan, Chicago has a waterway that connects to the Atlantic Ocean through each of the Great Lakes and up the St. Lawrence River out into the sea.
Meeting up with the Mississippi River, the Illinois River provides cargo ships and freight liners with access to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean which can take containers through the Panama Canal and out into the Pacific. With the railroad system that connects track out from the city to the east, west, and south a number of factories and refineries have headquartered their manufacturing and distribution warehouses in Chicago so that they can reach out across the entire country.
From a standpoint of logistics, companies in Chicago that are servicing the United States and foreign interests on either side of the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans are able to manage the flow of every type of merchandise that is either ready to the shipped out to consumer, or needs to be finished and stored for distribution in the city. A key destination for every type of industry and commercial venture the city of Chicago is filled with office buildings, factories, and warehouses that are home to all manner of companies and nationally recognized brands.
For the logistics companies, Chicago offers an ideal mix of everything that is needed to import and export products internationally or domestically. With mills and manufacturing facilities that can take any substance and turn it into a finished product, the city is not only a perfect spot to bring processed goods into, it is also the best location within the United States to ship merchandise out from. By storing finished merchandise in warehouses along the docks or out by the train yards fabricators have the ability to service the whole country and put their merchandise on the shelves of every major city that is dotted about the country.
From a single distribution warehouse Chicago based manufactures can reach out to Boston and Miami on the eastern seaboard, or send merchandise west to San Diego and Seattle on the farthest borders of the north and south of either end of the map, and stop off at every other major city along the way. After 150 years, with the power to influence the retailers and service centers of the American consumer, Chicago continues to be the best place to build a hub for influencing the rest of the world.
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