Stretch wrap for Illinois
The mix of food, chemical and pharmaceutical plants means Illinois buyers often need clear film for scanning, heavy blown film for drums, and a dependable all-round machine roll for the I-80 distribution belt. Chicago winters also bring cold docks; film stored outdoors or in a trailer overnight loses stretch until it warms up. Containment force checks on each shift catch the difference before loads fail.
Who wraps pallets in Illinois
Private jobs statewide, BLS QCEW 2025.
- Food manufacturing98,300
- Warehousing and storage80,071
- Chemical manufacturing48,745
- Grocery and related product wholesale48,629
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing24,257
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing21,206
- Motor vehicle manufacturing12,606
- Refrigerated warehousing4,095
Most concentrated: pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, 1.8 times its national share of employment.
Illinois warehousing runs along the interstates south-west of Chicago, through Will, Cook and DuPage. Pallets range from cases of packaged food to drums of chemicals to light cartons of medicines, so one site often buys cast, blown and heavier film.
Films these loads usually take
Start here, then tell us the load.
- 80 gauge, cast or blownCases of food
- 20 in x 5,000 ft machine filmFor DC wrappers
- 100 gaugeDrums and pails
- Blown hand filmMixed store orders
- Clear cast filmCartons that must scan
- VCI and anti-static filmBare metal and electronics
Lake winters make dock doors the coldest place in the building. Keep rolls away from them, and give a turntable a few warm-up loads before judging a new film.
Metro pages in Illinois
Pages for the busiest distribution areas.
Sources
- BLS QCEW 2025 annual averages, warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, food manufacturing (NAICS 311) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing (NAICS 3254) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, motor vehicle parts manufacturing (NAICS 3363) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, motor vehicle manufacturing (NAICS 3361) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, refrigerated warehousing (NAICS 49312) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- Interstate 80 (Wikipedia) (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- USDA NASS, Capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses, October 1, 2025 (reviewed 2026-11-12)
- BLS QCEW 2025, all private industries (reviewed 2026-11-12)
Facts on this page last reviewed 2026-11-12.
Ask for a stretch film quote in Illinois
The Will County warehouses around Joliet, Elwood and Romeoville are among the busiest in the Midwest, and several large rail-truck terminals sit there too. Sites there usually buy machine rolls by the pallet; downstate food plants in Decatur and Peoria buy for production lines with their own specifications.
Put the Illinois delivery ZIP first: the quote is made out for that dock.
- Step 1 asks what you need, how much a month, the delivery ZIP and how to reach you
- Step 2 asks the film, the width and the gauge; skip what you don't know