GREAT NORTHERN LUMBER

2200 W. 127th Street, Blue Island, IL 60406 (708) 388-1818 | Fax (708) 388-0887

In The News

Jeff Currier, president of Great Northern Lumber, answers questions from the Pallet Enterprise about working in the industry.

Products

“We provide our customers with exactly what they want, when they want it, at competitive costs, anywhere on earth.”

Manufacturing

Each stick of lumber or sheet of plywood is remanufactured in the south side Chicago plant.

Transportation

Great Northern Transportation, fleet of 6 trucks, offers on-site and next day deliveries (local industrials).

Project Highlights

Lower Wacker Drive

2015-02-19

Rebuilding Chicago’s Upper and Lower Wacker Drive (Building a double-deck street around the Loop to last for the next 100 years) Restoration took 20-months, $200-million project that was laid down in a monolithic pour – the la [...]

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Roosevelt University

2015-02-19

The Wabash Building: A Vertical Campus To meet the challenge of placing over 20,000 cubic yards of concrete over 33 stories on this cramped urban site, Great Northern Lumber has marshaled its [...]

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Plywood delivery to Wrigley Field

2015-03-12

Great Northern Lumber, Making The Confines Friendly The Historic Wrigley Field, built in 1914, is known as "The Friendly Confines" and the stadium is a Chicago landmark. The renovation and expans [...]

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Chicago Deep Water Tunnel

2015-04-08

The Deep Tunnel The Deep Tunnel, or the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, is the largest public works project in Chicago’s history and one of the biggest in the U.S. The tunnel system is 130 miles lon [...]

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