Short-Term Storage in Chicago, IL

Checkmate stores short-term moves in its own warehouse on West Fulton Street — the same building the trucks run out of — instead of subleasing space in a storage facility across town and adding a middleman to the price. That matters for timing as much as it matters for cost: when a closing date slips or a new place isn’t ready for a couple of weeks, the crew that loaded the truck is the same crew that can pull items back off the shelf, because everything is on-site.

Pricing is flat-rate, not hourly, and set at the walkthrough based on how much is actually going into storage — a couple of rooms’ worth of furniture prices differently than a full household. Items get inventoried going in and tagged the same way they’d be tagged for a same-day delivery, so nothing gets buried in the back of the warehouse with no record of what it is or where it went.

Short-term storage at Checkmate is built for gaps measured in days or a few weeks, not a long-term self-storage lease — the kind of situation where a move-out date and a move-in date don’t quite line up and the alternative is renting a unit nobody wants to manage themselves. Basic released-value protection covers stored items the same way it covers anything on the truck.

• Stored in Checkmate’s own West Fulton warehouse, not a subleased unit
• Flat-rate pricing set at the walkthrough
• Inventoried and tagged on the way in
• Built for short gaps between move-out and move-in dates
• Basic released-value protection included

What This Service Includes

• Storage in Checkmate's own West Fulton warehouse
• Flat-rate pricing set at the walkthrough
• Items inventoried and tagged on intake
• Built for days-to-weeks gaps, not long-term leases
• Basic released-value protection included