Flagpole installation inRockford, IL

Flagpoles in Rockford

The largest city in Illinois outside the Chicago area, running on aerospace and machining, a busy freight airfield and a river straight through the middle of it. We cover Rockford and the Winnebago County area, including the Rock River and the downtown riverfront, East State Street and the Coronado Theatre, Rockford University and Rock Valley College, the medical campuses, Chicago Rockford International and the industrial corridors out toward Loves Park and Belvidere.

Wind here. Rockford sits in an inland, wooded 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. Aerospace and precision machining are what Rockford runs on, and a good deal of our work here goes up at the plants and out at the airfield, on flat open ground at the edge of the city. Chicago Rockford International is the second-largest UPS air hub in North America and one of the busiest cargo airports in the country, so a pole out there is read from a distance and stands in clear air, which argues for height and settles the question of wall thickness on its own. In town the problem turns around. Rockford is called the Forest City and it still is one, so the branches are looked at before a spot is agreed, and sometimes the spot moves. The Rock River cuts the city in two, and open bank frontage on either side is treated as exposed whatever the street behind it is doing.

Most of the people who call us from Rockford are aerospace and machining plants, air-cargo and logistics buildings, hospitals and clinics, colleges and school districts, city and county facilities, veterans posts and churches.