Bensenville, Illinois

O'Hare, CPKC, and the northwest warehouse belt

Bensenville sits on the Cook and DuPage line, immediately west and south of O'Hare International Airport, with Franklin Park, Northlake, Wood Dale, Elk Grove Village and Elmhurst around it. I-294 (the Tri-State), I-190 into the airport, I-290 and Irving Park Road (IL-19) are the roads that actually move this freight. York Road and Mannheim Road are the north-south locals most trucks use.

The CPKC Bensenville Intermodal Terminal is a public Canadian Pacific Kansas City facility, listed in public directories at 10800 S. Franklin Avenue in Franklin Park, on the Bensenville yard complex. It is the Chicago-area CPKC intermodal gate, and it is a ramp in the market we can pick up from or deliver to. Naming it is not a CPKC contract claim.

A few minutes away in Northlake is Union Pacific Global II, a public UP intermodal facility listed at 301 West Lake Street, Northlake, IL. Global II is a separate railroad and a separate gate from Bensenville. If your delivery order says Global II, we plan Northlake. If it says Bensenville or CPKC, we plan the Franklin Avenue gate.

This is also one of the densest warehouse belts in the Midwest: Elk Grove Village, Wood Dale, Itasca, Addison and the O'Hare cargo area. A typical move is an out-gate at Bensenville or Global II and a short delivery into one of those parks, or the reverse for an outbound. Air-export pickups and airport cutoffs are part of the same geography. FNS arranges air-export pickups through carriers that meet the airline's or forwarder's security requirements.

From Mokena the drive is longer than a Will County ramp run: I-294 north is the usual path, and it is a corridor that needs a realistic transit time, especially at the airport rush. Tell us the gate, the appointment and whether the load has an air cutoff.