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Licensed Illinois land surveyors resolving property-line disputes, encroachments and fence disagreements across Chicago and Cook County.
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In a city built parcel by parcel across more than a century, Chicago’s boundary questions run deep: original subdivision plats, resubdivisions, party walls and shared gangways all overlap on lots that are often only a few feet apart. A garage, fence or new addition that reaches past the recorded line can quickly become a dispute between owners. A boundary dispute survey retraces the true line from the deeds and the evidence that survives on the ground.
A boundary dispute survey is a careful retracement of your property lines, backed by research of deeds, prior surveys and physical evidence. It gives you — and, if needed, your attorney — a defensible determination of where the true boundary lies.
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Chicago is the seat of Cook County and, with roughly 2,746,388 residents, by far its largest municipality; it operates as a city with no township. Its older neighborhoods sit on narrow, densely platted lots where party walls, coach houses and gangways leave almost no margin, so encroachment and fence-line disputes are common. Deeds, plats and prior surveys for city parcels are recorded with the Cook County Clerk’s Recordings Division, the office that succeeded the Recorder of Deeds. Untangling that layered record and matching it to the monuments in the field is central to determining a defensible boundary here.
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Many Chicago lots are narrow and densely platted, with garages, fences, party walls and gangways sitting inches from the line. Over a century of rebuilding, improvements drift, and a boundary dispute survey is what re-establishes where the recorded line actually falls.
Yes. Sealed by an Illinois Professional Land Surveyor and grounded in the deed and plat research plus field evidence, the survey is prepared as a defensible determination that attorneys and courts can rely on.
The determination rests on the recorded evidence and the monuments found, not on either owner’s opinion, so it does not shift because a neighbor objects. It gives you an authoritative basis to resolve the matter by agreement or, if needed, through the courts.
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Pi Surveying, located in Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, is a professional land surveying design firm that provides land surveys for both the private and commercial sector.