Service Areas

Lyons is home base — our trucks and riggers cover all of Cook County's western suburbs.

Schedule Your Piano’s Move
Describe the piano to Renata Kovac — upright, baby grand, grand, or concert grand — and she quotes a flat rate on that call, in writing, before you hang up
Boards, skids, and ramps get matched to that exact piano and loaded before the truck leaves our Lyons yard
Desmond Okafor or Marco Vitale shows up at the hour you booked to rig it out — no guessing, no general moving crew improvising
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Piano Moving World is based out of our office on Ogden Avenue in Lyons, and our five trucks work all of Cook County and the western reaches of the Chicago metro every week. That covers a lot of the same housing stock — 1920s bungalows and two-flats with narrow, turned staircases that were never built with a baby grand in mind, plus the basement stairwells and walk-up condos that come with them. Crew chiefs Desmond Okafor and Marco Vitale know these blocks well enough to plan a piano’s path through a house before the truck even parks.

  • La Grange — Historic homes and tight front stairs around downtown La Grange, planned for before the truck arrives.
  • Brookfield — Bungalows and two-flats near the zoo, with the same narrow staircases we see across Lyons.
  • Riverside — Curving streets and older frame houses, with piano moves scheduled around Riverside’s narrow driveways.
  • Berwyn — Six-flats and bungalows with basement stairwells built decades before anyone moved a piano through them.
  • Cicero — Dense two-flats and walk-up buildings where a piano move takes real planning, not a rented van.
  • Summit — Close along the Des Plaines River, the same humidity swings we watch for at our own office.

Don’t see your town on this list? We likely still cover it — call (888) 278-9005 or start from the Piano Moving World home page.

Quick Answers Before You Book

Do you charge extra to come outside Lyons?▾

No. Cook County and the western suburbs are covered under our normal flat rate — there's no mileage surcharge added on.

What if my suburb isn't listed here?▾

Call the office. Renata can usually confirm coverage and build a written quote the same day even if the town isn't on this list.

Do the same crew chiefs work every suburb?▾

Yes — Desmond Okafor and Marco Vitale rotate across the whole service area, so the crew that shows up already knows the housing stock.

Cook County Towns We Cover

Based in Lyons, Piano Moving World runs piano moves across Southwest Cook County / Chicago Metro — including La Grange, Brookfield, Riverside, Berwyn — one crew and one set of trucks, wherever the piano takes us.

Why Piano Owners Choose Us

The Rate Eli Prices Is the Rate You Sign

Eli Sorensen looks over every piano himself — over the phone, on a video call, or from photos you text in — before Renata Kovac puts a flat number on the written quote, priced to that exact upright, grand, or concert grand, not a generic moving estimate.

Every Rigger Draws a Piano Moving World Paycheck

Desmond Okafor trains every new hire on the boards and skids himself, and all six of our full-time riggers stay on payroll year-round — nobody’s a day-labor hire meeting your piano for the first time on move day.

The Paperwork Is Ready Before You Ask For It

Renata Kovac keeps our Illinois ICC household goods permit current for jobs that start and end in-state, plus the federal US DOT/MC authority that covers any run crossing into Wisconsin, Indiana, or Missouri — ask for the certificate of insurance and the $1M cargo figure is already printed on it.

Built Around a Cook County Calendar, Not a Generic One

When a spring flood watch rises along the Des Plaines River, we move a piano out before the water does, and once a lake-effect squall backs up the Stevenson Expressway, we build extra time into the truck’s route instead of risking a late arrival.

The Hard Parts Are Priced Before We Show Up

A turned 1920s bungalow staircase off Center Avenue, a low basement stairwell in Berwyn or Cicero, the extra miles out to La Grange or Summit — all of it gets built into the flat rate before you sign, so the invoice doesn’t grow once the truck is in your driveway.

Every One of Our 5 Trucks Rolls Out Rigged for Pianos

Boards, skids, ramps, and moving blankets sized for an upright through a full concert grand ride on every truck before it leaves the yard, so nobody’s improvising with a mattress dolly borrowed from a general move.

Book Before the Spring Recital Season Fills the Calendar

Lock in your Lyons move date online now — Cook County’s spring recital and graduation weeks fill first every year, right alongside the church and school moves Eli prices at a discount.

Rescheduling Never Adds a Dollar

A freeze warning moves your basement move-out date, or a venue’s load-in time shifts a week — either way, moving your date ahead of time doesn’t change the flat rate Renata already wrote down.

Real Piano-Type Pricing, Not a Generic Moving Calculator

Every figure traces back to an actual piano Eli or Renata has priced by type around Lyons before, with church, school, and repeat-customer discounts already folded into the total before you sign.

What Our Customers Say

Read them as they were posted — Cook County piano owners talking about their own move day, no editing on our end.

Harriet Voss
★★★★★

Desmond walked our turned staircase twice before the piano ever left the wall — every corner had a plan, and the baby grand came down without a mark on the newel post.

Harriet VossLa Grange · Google
Owen Bradac
★★★★★

Booked the Milwaukee run on a Tuesday and Marco’s crew had our grand loaded, driven, and set back on its legs by Thursday afternoon — same crew the whole way, no handoff.

Owen BradacRiverside · Google
Selena Marchetti
★★★★★

Fourth-floor walk-up, no elevator, and they still had the upright wrapped and down the stairwell in under an hour without touching a wall.

Selena MarchettiBrookfield · Google
Trent Iwuchukwu
★★★★★

They crated the piano the week before a January move so the cold never touched it — humidity padding, corner guards, all of it done before the truck ever showed up.

Trent IwuchukwuBerwyn · Google
Paulina Okonkwo
★★★★★

Our venue only had a two-hour load-in window before the ceremony and the piano was tuned-ready on stage with twenty minutes to spare.

Paulina OkonkwoCicero · Google

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