Evanston’s rhythm follows Northwestern’s calendar as much as anything else — September move-ins and June move-outs near campus and along Chicago Avenue and Ridge stack up fast, and much of the housing stock is prewar courtyard buildings with narrow interior hallways that don’t leave much room for a couch to turn a corner. Closer to the lake on Sheridan Road, older greystones and vintage co-ops add their own building rules: service entrances, elevator scheduling, move-in windows the building actually enforces. Jamal Whitfield walks the unit ahead of time and works out which pieces get disassembled and where the truck stages, so move day doesn’t turn into a hallway pileup during the one hour the building gave you.
Two movers run $145/hr, three run $185/hr, four run $225/hr, and each additional mover is $50/hr.
Evanston Rates, Straight Up
$145/hr for two movers, $185/hr for three, $225/hr for four. Prefer a firm number over doing the math yourself? Jamal will walk the place and hand you one in writing.
No two Evanston homes load the same way, which is the whole reason Jamal sees a place before crew size gets locked in. Every job carries basic released-value protection at no cost, your $175 deposit comes straight off the final bill, and a fifth mover and beyond runs $50/hr each.
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