Flagpole installation inSpringfield, IL

Flagpoles in Springfield

A government town before it is anything else, with the Capitol, the agencies around it, the state fairgrounds and two large hospital systems. We cover Springfield and the Sangamon County area, including the Capitol complex and the Old State Capitol, the Lincoln Home neighbourhood and the Lincoln Tomb, the Dana-Thomas House, the Illinois State Fairgrounds, the University of Illinois Springfield, the medical district and Lake Springfield.

Wind here. Springfield sits in an inland, unsheltered 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. State work in Springfield does not go through the city. Construction on state property, the public universities included, runs through the Capital Development Board, which is headquartered here; that is a separate route with its own schedule and it wants starting earlier than a municipal permit would. The Lincoln Home neighbourhood is a case of its own, because the National Park Service owns four blocks and twelve acres of it in the middle of the city, and anything standing at the edge of that gets looked at carefully. Away from the government ground the city is flat and open on every side, so the fairgrounds, the land out toward Lake Springfield and the edges of town are sized for what stands upwind of them, which is very little.

Most of the people who call us from Springfield are state agency and county buildings, hospitals and medical offices, school districts, churches, veterans posts, downtown offices and associations, and the contractors who work on state property.