Flagpole installation inJoliet, IL

Flagpoles in Joliet

A river and rail town that turned into the freight crossroads of the Midwest, with its downtown down in the Des Plaines valley and intermodal yards spread out south of it. We cover Joliet and the Will County area, including downtown and the Des Plaines River, the Rialto Square Theatre, the old prison, the East Side and Upper Bluff historic districts, Joliet Junior College, the I-80 and I-55 interchange and the intermodal terminals at Elwood.

Wind here. Joliet sits in an inland, low-lying and 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. Joliet was a quarry town before it was a freight town. The limestone the old prison is built from came out of the ground here, and where the rock is shallow the concrete goes into a hole cut in stone rather than a drilled one; that is a different day and a different price, and it is why we want to see the site first. South of the city at Elwood is the largest inland port in North America, laid out on the old army ammunition plant land, and those yards and warehouses stand on flat ground with nothing around them to break the wind. Downtown is the opposite condition: narrow streets down in the river valley, the East Side and Upper Bluff districts either side of them, and a Historic Preservation Commission that reviews work on a local landmark before the permit follows. People here still bring up the Plainfield tornado of August 1990, which crossed Crest Hill and Joliet, and the straight answer is that no pole is sold against a storm like that. What we can do is size the shaft and the footing to the wind speed adopted for the address and be plain about what that covers.

Most of the people who call us from Joliet are distribution and warehouse operators, manufacturing plants, city and county buildings, school districts and the college, hospitals, churches, veterans posts and downtown commercial frontage.