Contact

Based at 2140 W Fulton Street in Chicago's West Loop. Call, email, or send a quote request and Michelle will follow up the same business day.

This goes directly to Michelle, no forwarding, no queue — she or Desmond calls back the same day to get your Chicago move on the calendar and flag anything worth a closer look at the walkthrough.

ProMover AMSA Certified
BBB Accredited A+ Rating
US DOT FMCSA Registered
Fully Insured Cargo Protected
IAM Member Intl. Movers Assn.
IL ICC Licensed Illinois Commerce Comm.

Reach the office

Checkmate Movers is based at 2140 W Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612, in the West Loop, with trucks and crews covering Cook, DuPage, and Lake County plus long-distance jobs leaving Illinois. The office is open Monday through Saturday, 7am to 6pm, with Sunday available by appointment for walkthroughs and move days that can’t wait until Monday.

Michelle Torres runs the office and scheduling — she’s the one who answers the phone, books your walkthrough, and keeps the crews’ calendar straight. Email [email protected] any time and expect a reply the same business day during office hours.

How a quote actually works

Fill out the quote form with your move date, origin and destination, and a rough inventory, and Michelle or Jamal will follow up to schedule either a phone estimate or an in-home walkthrough, depending on the size of the job. For anything past a studio apartment, we’d rather see the rooms in person — that’s where load order, furniture placement, and building access (elevator reservations, loading dock hours, stairwell width) actually get worked out, not guessed at over the phone.

A $175 deposit holds your date and is credited straight to your final invoice — it isn’t an extra charge.

What Sets Checkmate Movers Apart Around Chicago

Here’s What Checkmate Movers Does Differently Than Most Movers Around Chicago

Licensed With Illinois’s Commerce Commission — Not Just A Line On The Website

Household movers working Chicago and the surrounding Cook, DuPage, and Lake County suburbs have to carry ICC registration through the Illinois Commerce Commission; Checkmate Movers keeps it current every year, no lapses. The moment a job crosses the state line into Wisconsin, Indiana, or beyond, it's US DOT and MC authority that's covering the move instead.

You Pick Your Coverage Before The Truck Ever Loads

Basic released-value protection comes standard on every job at no cost. Ask Jamal about full-value coverage at your walkthrough if you'd rather have the higher payout ceiling You hear both options once, at the estimate — nobody's pitching an upgrade halfway down your stairwell with a dresser on their shoulder.

The Walkthrough Builds A Plan, Not Just A Price

Desmond spent eight years running crews for a big-box moving franchise where a couch could get carried up three flights twice because nobody had worked out the order first. At Checkmate Movers, Jamal maps furniture placement, load order, and building access at the in-home estimate — elevator windows, stairwell turns, tight doorways — so the crew walks in with a plan already set instead of working one out in the truck.

All Eighteen Of Us Are On Payroll, Not A Rotating Bench

Eighteen people are on payroll at Checkmate Movers, fourteen of them movers running nine trucks — no day-labor crews brought in when a week gets busy, no subcontractors filling out a truck. Desmond built it that way on purpose: a plan only holds up if the crew executing it actually works for the company that wrote it.

Every Move Planned Before The First Box Does.

Furniture placement, load order, and building access get worked out at the walkthrough, before anyone touches a box on moving day. Desmond Hale started Checkmate Movers in 2013 after eight years running crews for a franchise that never planned a job in advance, and watched the same couch get carried up the same stairs twice because of it.

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