Earthwork contractor in Waukegan, IL handling excavation and drainage and pond work. Rated 4.8 on Google across 2203 reviews.
Waukegan, Illinois
5 Best Excavation Contractors in Waukegan, IL
5 earthwork contractors working Waukegan, IL, 4 rated on Google. Filter by the job you need, then call direct.
1 more contractor works this area from a truck rather than a yard, so it has no address to pin. It is in the list below.
Earthwork contractors in Waukegan: every listing
1 of these covers three or more trades, so one call may carry the whole job.
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Earthwork contractor in Waukegan, IL handling excavation, driveway and gravel road work and foundations and concrete work. Rated 5.0 on Google across 5 reviews.
Earthwork contractor in Waukegan, IL handling excavation and drainage and pond work. Rated 5.0 on Google across 19 reviews.
Earthwork contractor in Waukegan, IL handling utility trenching. Rated 1.0 on Google across 1 review.
Earthwork contractor in Waukegan, IL handling demolition.
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About earthwork contractors in Waukegan
EarthworkScout lists 5 earthwork contractors working Waukegan, Illinois: the excavators, land clearers, grading crews and septic installers you can compare side by side instead of opening a dozen tabs. 4 of these Waukegan listings carry Google reviews, averaging 4.0 stars, and 3 are rated 4.5 stars or higher. Between them they cover excavation, drainage & ponds, driveways & gravel roads and concrete & foundations. 1 of them handle three or more of these trades, which matters more than it looks: a single outfit that can clear, grade and dig takes a lot from raw to pad-ready without a handoff, and handoffs are where a schedule slips. Earthwork in Waukegan is priced by the job rather than by a rate card, so the sensible move is to describe the same scope to two or three contractors and compare what comes back. Every listing here is built from public business data and the full set of categories a firm is filed under, and a service we do not show simply means we found no evidence of it, not that they turn the work down. Updated for 2026.
Excavation in Waukegan: questions
How much does excavation cost in Waukegan?
Excavation in Waukegan is quoted by the job or the machine day, not off a price list. A small residential dig commonly lands between $1,500 and $5,000; what moves it is access, how far the spoil has to travel, whether you hit rock, and what the IL permit and dig-safe process adds. Call two or three of the 5 contractors above and describe the same scope to each, or the numbers will not be comparable.
Can one contractor in Waukegan clear, grade and dig?
Yes, and it is usually the cheaper route because you are not paying for a second mobilization. M. Sanchez Concrete Construction Inc. covers 3 of the earthwork trades on our records, the widest in Waukegan: excavation, driveways & gravel roads and concrete & foundations. Use the filters above to stack the trades your job needs and see who covers all of them.
Which excavation contractor in Waukegan is rated highest?
ILM Environments is the highest-rated earthwork contractor in our Waukegan list, at 5.0 stars from 19 Google reviews. Of the 5 contractors working Waukegan, 3 are rated 4.5 stars or higher (the list averages 4.0).