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State of the Art Printing

Your leading marketing and commercial printing company.

 
 

Offset Printing

Our outstanding offset printing department is comprised of multiple one- to six-color presses.

 
 

Digital Printing

State Graphics has always been a leader in digital printing. We have become a strategic partner with Heidelberg USA, the provider of our digital printing equipment and service.

 
 

Marketing and Design

Is your BIG IDEA BIG ENOUGH? Our team of creative and marketing professionals is here to help.

 
 

Direct Mail, Mailing Service and Distribution

Direct Mail is a great way to market to current customers as well as prospect for new business.

 
 

Bindery

State Graphics has a comprehensive bindery department on site.

 
 

Apparel, Silk Screening and Embroidery

Outfit your team with branded apparel from State Graphics.

 
 

Promotional Products

Promotional giveaways from State Graphics invite consumers to interact with your organization on a deeper level than most marketing channels.

 
 

Laser Engraving

First impressions can make all the difference.

 
 

Large Format, Flatbed, and Roll-to-Roll

State Graphics' large format printing capabilities encompass everything from posters and banners to point- of-purchase and trade show displays.

 
 

Zünd Swiss Cutting System

The extraordinary modularity of our Zünd digital cutter is truly unique.

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Chicago Area Printing Company

A Winning Formula for Success

Headquartered in suburban Chicago, State Graphics is now a nationally recognized printer serving business, trade, and consumer clients. In-house services include:

> Digital and offset printing
> Marketing and design services
> Apparel
> Wide-format printing and signage

> mailing preparation and completion > bindery
> engraving
> fulfillment services

State of the Future

State Graphics has always been committed to excellent customer service and leading-edge technology. We continue to expand the depth of our services — including enhanced wide-format printing, precision laser large-format personalized work, die-cutting, engraving, embroidery work, and silk-screen garment work. With additional capabilities in digital marketing and web-to-print, State Graphics is uniquely positioned to provide print and marketing for your organization’s present and future growth.

Printing

Digital and Offset Printing. Our outstanding offset printing department is comprised of multiple one- to six-color presses.

State Graphics has always been a leader in digital printing. We have become a strategic partner with Heidelberg USA, the provider of our digital printing equipment and service.

Laser Engraving

Laser engraving is remarkably flexible and capable of a variety of designs at varying levels of detail. Your State Graphics team offers precision engraving on many materials, such as metal, plastic, wood, leather and ceramics for long-lasting marketing magic. It’s perfect for building brand awareness and loyalty.

Promotional Products

Promotional giveaways from State Graphics invite consumers to interact with your organization on a deeper level than most marketing channels. Even the most affordable promo items build brand recognition and offer long-lasting impressions because customers not only see and touch the giveaway, but they often take it with them.

Large Format

Large Format, Flatbed, and Roll-to-Roll. State Graphics’ large format printing capabilities encompass everything from posters and banners to point-of-purchase and trade show displays. Flatbed Digital Printers print on a wide range of materials including plastic, paperboard, canvas, vinyl, metal, wood, and glass.

Apparel

Apparel, Silk Screening, and Embroidery. Whether you order silk-screened t-shirts for a kids’ fundraising event, branded uniforms for your customer-facing staff, or embroidered pullovers for your C-suite —logo apparel elevates your profile and extends the life of any promotion.

About Chicago

Chicago Statistics

Welcome to Chicago, the third largest city in the United States, with a population of nearly three million people.

Chicago is home to…

  • 237 square miles of land

  • An estimated 2,695,598 residents

  • Dozens of cultural institutions, historical sites and museums

  • More than 200 theaters

  • Nearly 200 art galleries

  • More than 7,300 restaurants

  • 77 community areas containing more than 100 neighborhoods

  • 26 miles of lakefront

  • 15 miles of bathing beaches

  • 36 annual parades

  • 19 miles of lakefront bicycle paths

  • 552 parks

  • United States President Barack Obama

Did you know…

  • Over 50 million people visit Chicago annually.

  • Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837.

  • Chicago’s nicknames include: The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City, and The City That Works.

  • The “Historic Route 66” begins in Chicago at Grant Park on Adams Street in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  • The Chicagoland area contains nearly 10 million people in three states – Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana – and is the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the United States.

  • Chicago is home to 11 Fortune 500 companies, while the rest of the metropolitan area hosts an additional 23 Fortune 500 companies.

  • McCormick Place, Chicago’s premier convention center, as of 2016 offers the largest amount of exhibition space in the world (2.6 million square feet).

  • The first Ferris wheel made its debut in Chicago at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Today, Navy Pier is home to a 15-story Ferris wheel, modeled after the original one.

  • Chicago’s downtown area is known as “The Loop.” The nickname refers to the area encircled by the elevated (‘L’) train tracks.

  • The game of 16-inch softball, which is played without gloves, was invented in Chicago.

  • In 1900, Chicago successfully completed a massive and highly innovative engineering project – reversing the flow of the Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Michigan. Each year, the Chicago River is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

  • The Art Institute of Chicago has one of the largest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world.

  • Chicago was one of the first and largest municipalities to require public art as part of the renovation or construction of municipal buildings, with the passage of the Percentage-for-Arts Ordinance in 1978.

  • The Chicago Cultural Center is the first free municipal cultural center in the U.S. and home to the world’s largest stained glass Tiffany dome.

  • When it opened in 1991, the Harold Washington Library Center, with approximately 6.5 million books, was the world’s largest municipal library.

  • The Lincoln Park Zoo, one of only three major free zoos in the country, is the country’s oldest public zoo with an estimated annual attendance of three million.

  • The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), at 108 stories and 1,451 feet, was the tallest building in the world when completed in 1974.

  • Four states are visible from Skydeck Chicago (formerly the Sears Tower Skydeck). Indiana, Illinois, Michigan & Wisconsin.

  • The first steel rail road in the United States was produced in 1865.

  • The first mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., was established in 1872.

  • The world’s first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Company, was built in 1885.

  • The original Ferris wheel was built on the midway of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

  • The Adler Planetarium became the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere in 1930.

  • The nation’s first blood bank was established in 1937 by Dr. Bernard Fantus at Cook County Hospital.

  • The first drive-in bank opened in 1946.

  • Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1949.

  • The first remote control device intended to control a television was invented in Chicago in 1950.

  • The first Democratic National Convention televised coast-to-coast was held in 1952 at Chicago’s International Amphitheater. (The first televised Democratic National Convention, in 1948, only reached viewers in the Northeast.)

  • Maria Callas made her U.S. debut at the Lyric Opera in 1954.

  • The first televised U.S. presidential candidates’ debate was broadcast from Chicago’s CBS Studios on September 26, 1960, between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon.

  • Sen. Carol Moseley Braun became the country’s first female African-American U.S. senator in 1992.

  • The late Mayor Richard J. Daley and former Mayor Richard M. Daley became the first father-son team to head the United States Conference of Mayors in 1996.

Chicago History

“It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” – Mark Twain, 1883

Chicago was only 46 years old when Mark Twain wrote those words, but it had already grown more than 100-fold, from a small trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River into one of the nation’s largest cities, and it wasn’t about to stop. Over the next 20 years, it would quadruple in population, amazing the rest of the world with its ability to repeatedly reinvent itself.

And it still hasn’t stopped. Today, Chicago has become a global city, a thriving center of international trade and commerce, and a place where people of every nationality come to pursue the American dream.

Early Chicago

Chicago’s first permanent resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free black man apparently from Haiti, who came here in the late 1770s. In 1795, the U.S. government built Fort Dearborn at what is now the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive (look for the bronze markers in the pavement). It was burned to the ground by Native Americans in 1812, rebuilt and demolished in 1857.

A Trading Center

Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago was ideally situated to take advantage of the trading possibilities created by the nation’s westward expansion. The completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but the canal was soon rendered obsolete by railroads. Today, 50 percent of U.S. rail freight continues to pass through Chicago, even as the city has become the nation’s busiest aviation center, thanks to O’Hare and Midway International airports.

The Great Fire of 1871

As Chicago grew, its residents took heroic measures to keep pace. In the 1850s, they raised many of the streets five to eight feet to install a sewer system – and then raised the buildings, as well. Unfortunately, the buildings, streets and sidewalks were made of wood, and most of them burned to the ground in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The Chicago Fire Department training academy at 558 W. DeKoven St. is on the site of the O’Leary property where the fire began. The Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station at Michigan and Chicago avenues are among the few buildings to have survived the fire.

“The White City”

Chicago rebuilt quickly. Much of the debris was dumped into Lake Michigan as landfill, forming the underpinnings for what is now Grant Park, Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago. Only 22 years later, Chicago celebrated its comeback by holding the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, with its memorable “White City.” One of the Exposition buildings was rebuilt to become the Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago refused to be discouraged even by the Great Depression. In 1933 and 1934, the city held an equally successful Century of Progress Exposition on Northerly Island.

Hull House

In the half-century following the Great Fire, waves of immigrants came to Chicago to take jobs in the factories and meatpacking plants. Many poor workers and their families found help in settlement houses operated by Jane Addams and her followers. Her Hull House Museum is located at 800 S. Halsted St.

Chicago Firsts

Throughout their city’s history, Chicagoans have demonstrated their ingenuity in matters large and small:

  • The nation’s first skyscraper, the 10-story, steel-framed Home Insurance Building, was built in 1884 at LaSalle and Adams streets and demolished in 1931.

  • When residents were threatened by waterborne illnesses from sewage flowing into Lake Michigan, they reversed the Chicago River in 1900 to make it flow toward the Mississippi.

  • Start of the “Historic Route 66” which begins at Grant Park on Adams Street in the front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

  • Chicago was the birthplace of:

    • the refrigerated rail car (Swift)

    • mail-order retailing (Sears and Montgomery Ward)

    • the car radio (Motorola)

    • the TV remote control (Zenith)

  • The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, ushering in the Atomic Age, took place at the University of Chicago in 1942. The spot is marked by a Henry Moore sculpture on Ellis Avenue between 56th and 57th streets.

  • The 1,450-foot Sears Tower, completed in 1974, is the tallest building in North America and the third tallest in the world.

Our sole female mayor, Jane M. Byrne, served from 1979 to 1983, and was succeeded by our first African-American mayor, Harold Washington, who served until his death in 1987. Mayor Richard J. Daley (1955-1976), presided over a public and private building boom that strengthened both downtown and the city’s neighborhoods. His son, Richard M. Daley, Chicago’s longest-serving mayor (1989 to 2011), reformed education and public housing, strengthened community policing and oversaw the construction of billions of dollars worth of schools, libraries, police stations and infrastructure, as well as the renovation of Soldier Field and the creation of Millennium Park.  Mayor Daley was also known for spearheading many environmental initiatives in his quest to make Chicago the ‘Greenest City in America’.  Chicago’s current mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was inaugurated in a ceremony at MIllennium Park in May of 2011.

Information from: www.cityofchicago.org

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What We Do

Printing. Screen Printing. Promotional Items. Embroidery. Laser Engraving.

Chicago Area Printing Company

We do a majority of our printing in house at our 25k square foot printing company facility. We personally manage and oversee the quality of all of the products that are sent out of our business. We can put your name and logo on anything.

Our Services

We offer multiple services to help you put your logo on anything and accomplish all of your printing needs. We have printing solutions for every need. Reach out to us if you need something printed! See examples of what we offer below.

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    State Graphics – Wheeling
    468 Diens Drive
    Wheeling, IL 60090
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    State Graphics – Lake Barrington
    22292 N. Pepper Road, Unit C
    Lake Barrington, IL 60010
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    1500 Old Deerfield Road, Unit 5
    Highland Park, IL 60035
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    M-F 8:30AM-3:30PM

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