Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Hodgkins, IL

Hodgkins is a small village in Cook County, Illinois, just over 3 miles from Chicago's western city limits, bordered by the Des Plaines River to the south and east.

Hodgkins was incorporated in 1896 and named for Jefferson Hodgkins, president of the Kimball and Cobb Stone Company, the first business to locate in the village - the name has nothing to do with Thomas Hodgkin, the physician who identified Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The 2020 census counted just 1,499 people in Hodgkins, living in roughly 600 households across the village's 2.64 square miles.

Despite its tiny population, Hodgkins hosts the UPS Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH), which Cook County calls the largest package sorting facility in the world and which UPS identifies as the largest ground hub in its worldwide network.

CACH opened on March 31, 1995, on the site of a former GM Truck and Bus plant, and its building has a perimeter of about 3.1 miles.

The UPS hub employs over 9,000 people - more than six times the village's entire population - and sorts about 1.6 million packages a day, exceeding 3 million a day during the November and December peak season.

Counting all its logistics and industrial employers, Hodgkins has been credited with roughly 10,500 jobs - about seven jobs for every resident.

Interstates 55 and 294 both cross Hodgkins, cementing its role as a freight and distribution crossroads for the Chicago region.

Hodgkins' modern commercial era began with the McCook-Hodgkins Enterprise Zone in 1985 and the Quarry shopping center, built in 1992 on land vacated by declining motor freight companies.