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About this directory
Metro East Home Pros is an independent list of home service companies in the Illinois Metro East. It currently covers 38 companies across 7 trades, with guides for 16 towns. It exists to help homeowners find established local pros quickly, with each company's own facts in one place.
How listings are picked
- Each company must have its own working website that names a base in or near the Metro East towns we cover.
- We favor established businesses: a real address or clear home base, a phone number, and services described on their own site.
- We skip generic lead-generation sites, companies we cannot tie to a real location, and sites that look abandoned. When a company's website goes dark, we remove the listing.
- No company pays to be listed. Featured spots, if we ever sell them, are always labeled "Featured" and never change the order or wording of a standard listing.
How listings are checked
- Every detail on a listing (services, service area, years in business, hours, phone, address) comes from the company's own website. Each listing names the pages we checked and the month we last checked them.
- License and insurance lines are shown exactly as the company states them. We do not verify licenses or insurance ourselves, so always ask for proof before work starts.
- Town guides list a company under "also serving" only when its own website names that town. Housing figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau, and permit offices link to each city's or village's own website.
- We re-check listings on a rolling schedule and remove businesses that have closed or moved away.
What we don't do
- We don't publish star ratings or reviews we can't verify.
- We don't use affiliate links, and we don't take a cut of any job.
- We don't charge homeowners. If you use a quote request form, your request is shared only with local pros who serve your area.
Corrections and removals
If something on a listing is wrong, or you own a listed business and want it changed or removed, use our listing form and choose "Correct an existing listing" or "Remove a listing". Tell us the business name and what should change. We review every request and reply by email.