Flagpole installation inEvanston, IL

Flagpoles in Evanston

A lakefront university town on Chicago's northern border, with a high-rise downtown, two hospitals and a great deal of protected building stock. We cover Evanston and the Cook County area, including the Northwestern University campus and the lakefill, downtown Evanston and Fountain Square, the Lakeshore, Ridge, Northeast and Oakton historic districts, the lakefront parks and Grosse Point Lighthouse, the hospital campuses and the Howard Street and Dempster Street corridors.

Wind here. Evanston sits in a lakefront, fully 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. More of a small job is reviewed in Evanston than anywhere else we work. The city has five historic districts, four of them mapped areas and one a thematic district of apartment buildings scattered right across town, and no building permit is issued for work in one until the Preservation Commission grants a certificate of appropriateness. Trees are the second permit. Since June 2024 any outside project within twenty-five feet of a tree, public or private, needs a tree preservation permit of its own, and on streets like these a flagpole hole is usually within twenty-five feet of somebody's tree. The Northwestern lakefront is seventy-four acres reclaimed from the lake in the early 1960s, so campus ground east of Sheridan Road is made land and the footing is drawn for it. The lake is the last of it: nothing stands between that shoreline and open water, so those addresses are sized for open exposure and the halyard hardware goes stainless against the spray.

Most of the people who call us from Evanston are university and school buildings, hospitals and medical offices, condominium and cooperative boards, churches and synagogues, downtown offices and hotels, and the city's own facilities.