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New & Used Shipping Containers For Sale in Chicago, IL

If you’re looking for containers within the Greater Chicago Area, consider Container Management, Inc. We carry a large inventory of new and used steel shipping containers in Chicago, IL. 


We also have a 30-year history of providing excellent customer service at better prices than most competitors.

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New & Used Shipping Containers for Sale in Chicago, IL

Our Containers Are Available for Pickup in Chicago or Delivery Within 150-200 Miles

You can pick up your containers or have us deliver them to you.


Pick Up Our Containers at the Chicago Depot

Our Depot site is in Chicago, IL, in the 60617 area.

For pickups, we provide a container release number. This allows you or your freight forwarder access to your purchased container(s) during the specified timeframe at the Depot Center.


Where We Deliver “Chicago” Shipping Containers 

We deliver containers using a tilt-bed (roll-off) truck within a 150- to 200-mile radius of Chicago. This encompasses:



  • Chicago, IL
  • All Chicago Suburbs
  • Central and Northern Illinois
  • Northwest Indiana
  • Central and Eastern Iowa
  • Southern Michigan
  • Central and Southern Wisconsin

For deliveries further than 150-200 miles, we employ a flat-bed truck broker that requires customers to lift off containers at the time of arrival. 


Not sure if you’re within our delivery radius? Just ask!


Additionally, your delivery location may be closer to one of our other Midwest container centers, such as Indianapolis, Indiana; St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; or Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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Discover Our Chicago Area Pricing

As a wholesaler, we’ve provided excellent customer service to container brokers, businesses, individuals, and many others in Chicago for more than 30 years. As one of the most reputable, largest, and long-standing container wholesalers, we can typically offer better prices than our competitors.

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New and Used Containers We Sell in Chicago

We sell all sizes of new and used steel shipping containers in the Chicago Area market. Our Chicago Area customers often buy:



  • Cargo Worthy containers that meet international specs for shipping goods overseas
  • 20-foot containers for storage
  • 20-foot containers for a variety of customizations
  • 40-foot containers for storage and customization (8 feet, 6 inches high)
  • 40-foot high-cube containers (9 feet, 6 inches high)
  • Other new and used shipping container sizes
New & Used Shipping Containers for Sale in Chicago, IL

Modifications

We can also modify and customize your container in Chicago at our state-of-the-art fabrication shop by adding doors, floors, windows, skylights, electrical, HVAC, and much more. 

Creative Uses of Containers in Chicago, Illinois, and Beyond

Explore some of the creative ways Illinoisans have repurposed steel shipping containers.

  • Gas Stations and Automotive Service Centers

    With hinged doors at both ends, cars can drive in at one end of the steel container and exit the other. Therefore, containers are cost-effective ways to expand capacity at existing brick-and-mortar automotive stations, replace an old or deteriorating station, or sit independently as a storefront in a lot.

  • Shopping Centers

    One of Chicago's most noteworthy applications for repurposed containers is in the Bronzeville Area, on Chicago’s South Side. Fondly nicknamed “Boxville,” a series of shipping containers serve as storefronts for the black and brown entrepreneurs of the local community. 


    Since 2017, the goals of Boxville have been threefold:  

    • Keep the dollars in the community.

    • Offer an opportunity to launch local small businesses without the overhead of a brick-and-mortar building.

    • Provide goods to an under-resourced community

  • Shipping Container Homes

    Builders construct both individual homes and entire subdivisions from shipping containers.


    Individual Homes

    Individual container homes are scattered throughout Chicago and its suburbs. Upscale container homes, such as one in St. Charles, Illinois, sold for $743,000. In Westmont, Illinois, another Chicago suburb, the container home sold for $525,000. 


    Subdivisions

    In other areas, such as the Englewood, Chatham, and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods on the Southside of Chicago, modest three- and four-bedroom homes are built from 40-foot containers. Home prices will start at $300,000.


  • Entertainment Complex and Patios

    Customized containers are also sourced as entertainment venues and community gathering places.


    In rural Loves Park, Illinois, part of the Rockford, Illinois, metropolitan statistical area, plans are underway to build a combination retail and entertainment complex.


    At 838 W. Kinzie Street in Chicago, you can find an outdoor patio and stage made from repurposed shipping containers. 


    Similarly, containers serve as a community center in Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.


  • Popup…Well, Everything

    Pop-up museums, libraries, retail markets, and more grace the Chicagoland area. 

  • Hydroponic Container Farms

    Urban and rural hydroponic container farms are an eco-friendly, climate-controlled way to maximize space and extend the Chicago growing season. Year-round, hydroponic farms grow in vertical trays, for example, in Mokena, Illinois, and in the Fulton Market district in Chicago.

Traditional Uses

Of course, Chicagoans continue to buy steel containers for more traditional uses. They buy shipping containers to move goods overseas. Moreover, they buy shipping containers to:



  • Store goods, equipment, and tools. 
  • Create mobile blood donation centers.
  • Use at construction sites for storage, first-aid centers or break trailers.
  • Establish portable, temporary, or permanent office spaces.
  • Create cost-efficient added space for myriad purposes. 
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