Flagpole installation inAurora, IL

Flagpoles in Aurora

The second-largest city in Illinois, spread over four counties on both banks of the Fox River, with its downtown standing on an island in the middle of the water. We cover Aurora and the Kane County area, including Stolp Island and the Paramount Theatre, the Leland Tower, the Fox River frontage through downtown, the Near Eastside and Tanner historic districts, Aurora University, Waubonsee Community College, Rush Copley and the industrial belt out along Eola Road and Route 59.

Wind here. Aurora sits in an inland, river-exposed area, which works out to roughly 105 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The island is the awkward part of an Aurora job. A pole on Stolp Island has open water in front of it whichever way the wind arrives, so island and riverbank addresses are sized for open ground rather than for a sheltered town centre. Stolp Island is a National Register district, the Near Eastside and Tanner districts sit directly behind it, and the city's Preservation Commission issues the certificate of appropriateness that a permit follows. Close to the Fox the ground is soft and wet, so on a bank site the depth of the footing is settled at the hole rather than on paper.

Most of the people who call us from Aurora are downtown and theatre-district commercial frontage, city and township buildings, distribution and manufacturing plants, schools and parish buildings, hospitals and medical offices, car dealerships and community associations.