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Licensed Illinois land surveyors resolving property-line disputes, encroachments and fence disagreements across Skokie and Cook County.
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Skokie’s dense grid of interwar bungalows and brick two-flats sits on narrow lots where a few inches genuinely matter, so a leaning fence or an overhanging garage can spark a real dispute. Many of these blocks were surveyed and built nearly a century ago, and decades of replaced fences and repaved drives have blurred where the recorded line actually runs. A careful retracement cuts through that ambiguity.
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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With about 67,800 residents, Skokie lies within Niles Township in the near-north portion of Cook County, just outside Chicago’s city limits. Its early-twentieth-century housing stock means tight side yards, shared driveways, and boundaries that have been occupied and re-occupied long enough for fences to drift from their true position. Resolving one of these lines means researching the original subdivision plat and deed history through the Cook County Clerk’s Recordings Division, then finding the monuments that pin the parcel to the ground. When a structure or fence appears to cross the line, the retracement establishes the defensible boundary of record. Homeowners and attorneys use that determination to settle encroachment questions on their own terms.
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Yes. Shared-driveway disputes are common on Skokie’s narrow lots, and a boundary survey retraces the deeded line and any recorded easement so both owners can see where the actual boundary and any shared rights fall.
Many Skokie subdivisions were platted in the early 1900s. We pull those original plats and the deed chain from the Cook County Clerk’s Recordings Division and reconcile them against monuments found in the field.
It rests on the recorded deed and plat, physical monument evidence, and prior surveys, all reconciled by a licensed surveyor. That documented basis is what holds up in negotiation or in court.
Pi Surveying provides the full range of land surveying services for Skokie property owners and builders:
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Get started on your next project with Pi Surveying’s expert land surveying services. Contact us today to schedule your survey and get accurate and reliable results.
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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.