Chicago Regional Council

The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters represents over 30,000 working men and women throughout Illinois and Eastern Iowa. Since 1881 our Regional Council and its membership continues to provide a foundation of skill-advancement training as a constant source of personal enrichment and career progression while improving the lives of its skilled members and their families. It is an honor and privilege to help develop and strengthen communities across the states in which we work, volunteer and live.

The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters represents over 30,000 working men and women from 19 local unions across Illinois and Eastern Iowa that represent our members. The Chicago Regional Council provides the construction and maintenance industries with productive, competitive and certified professionals, encompassing a wide variety of crafts and skills. The term "carpenter" is a blanket term for the numerous skills performed by the members of the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters. Throughout its history the union has developed many specialty crafts.

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America leads the way in training, educating, and representing the next generation of skilled construction professionals. We equip our professional craftsmen with skills that are demanded in today's construction industry. Throughout the 140-year history of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America we have used peaceful protests as a tool to achieve greater dignity and a higher standard of living for all carpenters. What we saw in our nation's capital on Wednesday was not that.

If you think being a carpenter is the career path for you, then union is the way to go. Carpentry is an excellent career choice and a very self-rewarding job. Union carpenters earn higher wages, work in safer conditions and have access to great benefits including medical, dental, vision, pension and annuity programs. For more information, please contact the local union in the area where you currently reside or one of our Apprentice Training Centers. We look forward to working with you. Being a union carpenter means good jobs and wages for working men and women.