Philadelphia, PA
Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Jackson, TN
Los Angeles, CAChicago, IL
service center.
The densest manufacturing base in the country and the grain belt behind it. Fourteen states run from Chicago, covering the Great Lakes, the upper Midwest and the Plains.
Most of this territory is within a day's drive
The states this
center is assigned.
The largest territory by plant count. Serves the Great Lakes manufacturing base and the upper Midwest, from food and beverage production to automotive parts and packaging.
Chicago · Rockford · Peoria · Milwaukee · Madison · Green Bay · Appleton and the Fox Valley · Minneapolis and Saint Paul · Duluth · Detroit · Grand Rapids · Lansing · Kalamazoo · Cleveland · Columbus · Cincinnati · Toledo · Indianapolis · Fort Wayne · South Bend · Louisville · Lexington · Saint Louis · Kansas City · Wichita · Des Moines · Cedar Rapids · Omaha · Lincoln · Fargo · Sioux Falls · Nashville · Memphis
Combustible dust is the through-line here
Almost everything this territory manufactures produces a combustible dust. Flour and sugar in the Chicago food corridor. Grain across Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. Wood in the northern forests and the mills that work them. Paper through the Fox Valley. Metal fines across the fabrication base.
That is why the Chicago center runs more combustible dust and overhead work than any other scope, and why the plants here are more likely to already have a Dust Hazard Analysis and an insurer with an opinion about it. The conversation in this region usually starts with a document rather than with a walk-through.
It is also the largest territory by plant count, which is what makes scheduling matter. Crews here work to a calendar set months out, because a plant that needs quarterly attention in Iowa cannot be fitted in around an emergency in Michigan.
The industries these
crews work in most.
Kelly serves every industry from every center. These are the ones concentrated inside this territory, which is what the crews here see week to week.
Food and beverage processing
The largest concentration of food manufacturing in the United States sits inside this territory, from the Chicago food corridor through Wisconsin dairy, Iowa and Nebraska protein, and the grain processing of the Plains. Flour, sugar, starch and grain dust make most of this work a combustible dust job and a food safety job at the same time.
Automotive and parts
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana carry the assembly and supplier base. Oil, coolant, weld smoke and process residue on cells, presses and the structure above them, usually scheduled into shutdown weeks.
Grain and agricultural processing
Elevators, mills and processing plants across Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. Grain dust is among the most hazardous combustible dusts in industry and the housekeeping requirement is unforgiving.
Corrugated and packaging
Converting plants clustered around Chicago, the Fox Valley and across Ohio and Indiana, serving everything the region manufactures.
Metal fabrication and machinery
Fabrication, stamping and machinery across the Great Lakes, where oil and grease removal and structural coatings are the recurring scopes.
Every Kelly service,
staffed from Chicago.
The full Kelly service list, the same full-time crews and the same documentation. Nothing is handed to a local vendor because the job is a long way from headquarters.
Who turns up,
and when.
Full-time Kelly employees
Every technician who walks into your plant from this center is a Kelly employee, trained to Kelly procedures and carrying Kelly insurance. No brokered labor, no local subcontractor filling in because the drive is long.
One number, wherever you are
888-422-2623 reaches Kelly directly. There is no regional switchboard and no call center. The call routes to a specialist who will tell you which center covers your plant and what the schedule actually looks like.
Scheduled against your window
Shutdowns, sanitation shifts, changeovers and planned outages. The survey sets the scope and the crew size is built for the window you have, rather than the window we would prefer.
Multi-site programs run as one
A group with plants in several states is one program with one point of contact, not one contract per site. Centers cross territory lines for these, which is what the overlaps below are for.
4 of the 14 states assigned to Chicago are also assigned to another center. That is deliberate, not an accident of the map. It means the nearest available crew takes the work rather than the one the territory line says owns it.
- Ohioalso Philadelphia
- Kentuckyalso Jackson
- Tennesseealso Atlanta, Jackson
- Kansasalso Jackson
Five more crews,
covering the rest.
Coverage is all 48 contiguous states. If your plant is outside this territory, one of these is the one that reaches it.
See the full territory map and the states each center covers on the service areas overview.
Tell us about the facility.
We'll tell you straight.
A specialist reviews every request, not a call center. If it is not Kelly work, we will say so and point you in the right direction.