| City: | Palatine, Illinois |
| Names to Avoid: | Ww Grainger Inc |
| County: | Cook County |
| Timezone: | Central (GMT -06:00) |
| Local Time: | 8:02:14 AM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 224 / 847 |
| Classification: | Unique [Company/Government] |
| Coordinates: | 42.1106, -88.0342 |
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W.W. Grainger, Inc., a Fortune 500 industrial supply company, maintains postal operations under ZIP code 60038 in Cook County, Illinois. Founded in 1927 by electrical engineer William Wallace Grainger in Chicago, the company began as a wholesale distributor of electric motors. By 1936, Grainger had established 15 branch locations, and the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967. Today, Grainger serves over 4.5 million customers worldwide with maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) supplies.
The company relocated its corporate headquarters to Lake Forest, Illinois in 1999, occupying an 820,000-square-foot facility at 100 Grainger Parkway with over 2,000 team members. Postal records show four ZIP+4 codes routing mail to W.W. Grainger Inc. at this Palatine-designated address. The company offers products ranging from safety equipment and hand tools to HVAC systems and electrical supplies. No Census population data exists for this commercial-only ZIP code. Palatine is the valid mailing city for correspondence to Grainger operations.
| Residential: | 0 |
| Business: | 1 |
Buildings registered in the USPS ZIP+4 database with designated codes for direct mail delivery.
ZIP Code 60038 is assigned to a single organization or institution. Detailed business demographics are not published for unique ZIP Codes.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 1Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 0Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 0Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 60038 is located in Cook County, Illinois, within the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 16980) and Illinois's 5th and 8th Congressional Districts. This Metro area has a population of 9,461,105 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 60038, and is subdivided into the Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg, IL division. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-INSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 16980Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg, IL (CBSA Div 16984)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 9,461,105Source: Census |
| MSA: | Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 05,08Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 95.71, 205.52 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Chicago, IL PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 1757225Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Palatine village; IllinoisSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 60038 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on February 1, 2026.