Waley runs nine moving service lines out of the Milwaukee Avenue yard, and every one of them ships under the same rule: the figure Eddy Ramirez writes on the walkthrough is the figure Marcus Waley signs, and the figure Marcus signs is the figure on the final invoice. The whole catalog is built around the Chicago calendar — the May 1 and October 1 lease-day push, the August academic move-in, the August-and-May academic move-out at DePaul, Northwestern, Loyola, the University of Chicago and IIT, and the December-through-March lake-effect winter window when the moving day starts at the alley and ends at the predawn route walk.
In-town three-flat and walk-up moves are the bread and butter — Logan Square greystones, Wicker Park six-corners third-floor apartments, Lincoln Park townhouses, Lakeview courtyard buildings, Bucktown new builds, Hyde Park bungalows and Andersonville Clark Street walk-ups all booked off Milwaukee Avenue with one signed Waley flat figure. Out-of-state hauls to Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cincinnati go on a binding interstate flat starting at $2,990, driven door-to-door by the same Waley crew that loaded at the Chicago curb. No relay yard. No interlined carrier. No transfer to a partner truck at the Indiana or Wisconsin line.
Loop highrise and Streeterville apartment moves get the COI to property management seventy-two hours out and the freight-elevator slot locked the same day the booking signs. The Saturday whole-house pack day comes off the same W-2 crew you meet on move-morning — uniformed, on payroll, floor runners on every leg, archive paper on the books, custom crates on the televisions and china barrels on the kitchen. The Milwaukee Avenue indoor heated bay handles short-term storage between closings, between leases or while the Lincoln Park, Lakeview and Edgewater snowbird households are wintering in Florida.
Piano, baby grand, parlor grand, gun-safe and antique-hutch specialty lifts start at $455 with walk-boards, e-track straps, stair-climbing dollies and a heated padded truck. Labor-only loading hands for your rented Penske, U-Haul, Budget truck, POD or moving container bill at $115 an hour for a two-mover Waley crew. And the 55-plus downsizing and Florida-snowbird coordination service runs out of a separate calendar so the patient packing days never collide with the May 1 push.