Flagpole installation inChampaign, IL

Flagpoles in Champaign

A university city on some of the flattest ground in the state, with a research park, a large hospital system and food and technology plants around the campus. We cover Champaign and the Champaign County area, including Campustown and Green Street, the University of Illinois campus, Memorial Stadium and the State Farm Center, Research Park, downtown Champaign and the Cattle Bank, the Carle medical campus, Willard Airport and the Boneyard Creek corridor.

Wind here. Champaign sits in a flat and fully open 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 rock here is a long way down. Champaign County sits on glacial drift running to hundreds of feet, so nothing solid is coming up to meet an auger, and the county had almost no drainage of its own until the tile went in. That is the practical problem: a hole can fill with water before it reaches depth, so the depth is settled at the hole rather than on the drawing. Downtown drains into the Boneyard, a small creek that flooded the middle of Champaign badly enough in 1993 that both cities set about rebuilding it, and a site near it is worth a look before anything is marked out. Above ground there is nothing to slow the wind, so the far edges of town and the work out in the county are sized for what is actually there. On the campus and in Research Park an internal halyard is standard: the rope sits inside the pole and the small access door locks, so there is no rope for a passer-by to reach on ground that is open, crossed all day and supervised by nobody.

Most of the people who call us from Champaign are university and research buildings, school district and community college facilities, hospitals and medical offices, food and technology plants, fraternities and student housing, churches, city buildings and farms out in the county.