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The Chicago Area Consolidation Hub ( CACH) is a package sorting facility for United Parcel Service, located in the village of Hodgkins, Illinois . CACH serves as a sorting facility for packages traveling in the United States and the world. Construction began in October 1991 [ 1] at the site previously occupied by the GM Truck and Bus ...
TForce Freight. TForce Freight, a subsidiary of TFI International, is an American less than truckload (LTL) freight carrier based in Richmond, Virginia. [ 1 ] The company was founded in 1935 as Overnite Transportation, [ 2 ] the name it used until 2006 when it was rebranded UPS Freight by new owner UPS. Its name changed to TForce Freight in ...
United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [ 1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
UPS Airlines is a major American cargo airline based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. [ 8] One of the largest cargo airlines worldwide ( in terms of freight volume flown ), UPS Airlines flies to 815 destinations worldwide. [ 9] It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of United Parcel Service since its launch in 1988.
In 2021 LaserShip acquired west coast delivery service OnTrac Logistics, Inc. for $1.3 billion, equivalent to $1.46 billion in 2023. [6] The two entities merged their delivery networks to form a transcontinental delivery network and rebranded their combined services to OnTrac.
The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs. Metra does not refer to its lines by particular colors, but the timetable accents for the Union Pacific West line are "Kate Shelley Rose" pink, honoring an Iowa woman who saved a Chicago & North Western Railway train from disaster in 1881.
One North Wacker. / 41.882249; -87.636205. One North Wacker, UBS Tower is a 50-story (199 m (653 ft)) skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The tower was built from 1999 to 2002 to accommodate Swiss investment bank UBS AG 's Chicago headquarters. [4] [5] Originally UBS Tower, as it was solely known then, housed ...
The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2] With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, [ 3 ] it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States [ 4 ] and the region most connected to the city through geographic ...