City of Chicago Heights

Our city offers so much:

• Access to a transportation network of railroads and interstate highways unique to metropolitan areas in the United States.

• Availability of very affordable, vacant land and facilities in our industrial region.

• Economic incentive programs and professional planning services.

• Lake Michigan water.

• A new comprehensive plan that is friendly to industrial interests.

• Already home to a wide variety of successful national and international manufacturing firms such as Ford Motor Company; Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemical Company; ABC Rail Corporation; Thrall Car Manufacturing; Ace Hardware Paint Division; UGN; CFC International; Owens-Brockway Glass Containers, division of Owens-Illinois, Inc.; A L Laboratories, Inc.; Rohm and Haas Illinois, Inc., and more.

• Excellent fire and police departments. Chicago Heights has a fire rating of 3, which means lower insurance premiums. One of the City's five fire stations is located in the industrial area. Our modern fire department has the latest in equipment, including ambulances, a snorkel truck and a state-of-the-art hazardous materials unit that can be deployed to industrial emergencies.

• Prairie State College and Governors State University, both working closely with area industry to provide educational services, such as technical training, that are necessary for today's workers and employers to be successful. Both institutions also have new state-of-the-art auditoriums that are excellent sites for conferences and business meetings.

• St. James Hospital and Health Centers, which has an Occupational Health Center, and Suburban Heights Medical Center, which has an Industrial Medicine Department.