Sump Pump Repair in Illinois
Sump Pump Repair across Illinois: the 750 ZIP codes and 525 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.
Free to homeowners in Illinois — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.
When it matters
Our sump pump repair coverage in Illinois runs to 750 ZIP codes in 525 cities. A state with both built storm systems and open ground produces two different kinds of pump failure, and which one a house is exposed to is decided by what is under the basement floor rather than by the weather.
Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.
We route sump pump repair calls in 750 ZIP codes across 525 Illinois cities, in 51 counties.
What this site is
Pit and Pump is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands, and a discharge connection is usually a permitted alteration — ask to see the permit. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.Checking a credential in Illinois
Illinois licenses are issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Plumbing Program, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
19 of the 51 Illinois counties we cover, a cross-section, largest to smallest
- Bureau County 8 ZIP codes
Bureau, Cherry, Dalzell, Depue, Ladd, Princeton, Spring Valley, Walnut - Champaign County 33 ZIP codes
Champaign, Urbana, Bondville, Broadlands, Dewey, Fisher, Foosland, Gifford, Homer, Ivesdale, Longview, Ludlow and 14 more - Cook County 215 ZIP codes
Chicago, Palatine, Schaumburg, Evanston, Des Plaines, Oak Park, Arlington Heights, Hoffman Estates, Melrose Park, Chicago Heights, Elk Grove Village, Glenview and 82 more - De Witt County 7 ZIP codes
Clinton, DeWitt, Farmer City, Lane, Wapella, Waynesville, Weldon - DeKalb County 1 ZIP code
Waterman - Ford County 7 ZIP codes
Elliott, Gibson City, Melvin, Paxton, Piper City, Roberts, Sibley - Iroquois County 5 ZIP codes
Buckley, Chebanse, Loda, Sheldon, Thawville - Jackson County 15 ZIP codes
Carbondale, Ava, Campbell Hill, De Soto, Dowell, Elkville, Gorham, Grand Tower, Jacob, Makanda, Murphysboro, Pomona and 1 more - Kankakee County 11 ZIP codes
Bonfield, Bourbonnais, Bradley, Essex, Grant Park, Kankakee, Manteno, Momence, Pembroke Township, Reddick, Saint Anne - Lee County 6 ZIP codes
Compton, Dixon, Franklin Grove, Paw Paw, Steward, Sublette - Macon County 17 ZIP codes
Decatur, Argenta, Boody, Dalton City, Elwin, Forsyth, Harristown, Macon, Maroa, Mt Zion, Oreana, Warrensburg - Madison County 2 ZIP codes
Collinsville, Godfrey - Mchenry County 19 ZIP codes
Crystal Lake, McHenry, Algonquin, Cary, Fox River Grove, Harvard, Hebron, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Marengo, Richmond, Ringwood and 4 more - Moultrie County 2 ZIP codes
Bethany, Sullivan - Peoria County 3 ZIP codes
Brimfield, Chillicothe, Peoria - Piatt County 11 ZIP codes
Atwood, Bement, Cerro Gordo, Cisco, De Land, Hammond, La Place, Mansfield, Milmine, Monticello, White Heath - Shelby County 1 ZIP code
Lakewood - Union County 7 ZIP codes
Alto Pass, Anna, Cobden, Dongola, Jonesboro, Millcreek, Wolf Lake - Winnebago County 28 ZIP codes
Rockford, Loves Park, Cherry Valley, Durand, Machesney Park, Pecatonica, Rockton, Roscoe, Seward, Shirland, South Beloit, Winnebago
32 more Illinois counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in Illinois, the call reaches a contractor.
What that coverage looks like
Of the 750 ZIP codes we cover in Illinois, 215 are in Cook County and 85 in Chicago. Storms do not respect that distribution: a single night's rain across 51 counties produces far more pump calls than any contractor can answer at once, which is the argument for testing yours in the dry.
How a sump pump repair job goes
A sump pump is tested by filling the pit, not by listening to it. The float has to lift, the pump has to start, the check valve has to hold and the discharge has to run clear of the house. Any of those four can fail silently and none of them announces itself until the night the pump is needed.
What the call asks about sump pump repair
- Whether the pump runs at all when the float is lifted by hand.
- Where the discharge goes, and whether it is frozen, blocked or running back into the pit.
- Whether there is a battery backup, and when it was last tested.
Every Illinois city we route in
190 cities, ordered by the share of housing built before 1970. Basements, and the groundwater under them, are a function of when and how the housing was built. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.
- Cicero 90%
- Berwyn 89%
- Bellwood 88%
- Riverside 88%
- Evergreen Park 88%
- Franklin Park 86%
- Maywood 86%
- La Grange Park 82%
- Westchester 80%
- Park Forest 80%
- Brookfield 79%
- Oak Park 79%
- Broadview 78%
- River Forest 77%
- Riverdale 77%
- Hillside 76%
- Rock Island 75%
- Wilmette 75%
- Summit Argo 74%
- Melrose Park 73%
- Elmwood Park 73%
- Schiller Park 73%
- Forest Park 73%
- Western Springs 72%
- Skokie 72%
- Evanston 71%
- Streator 71%
- Kankakee 71%
- River Grove 70%
- Morton Grove 69%
- Lyons 69%
- Chicago 69%
- Moline 69%
- Harvey 68%
- Peru 68%
- Park Ridge 67%
- Lincolnwood 67%
- Villa Park 67%
- Markham 67%
- Homewood 67%
- Danville 66%
- Harwood Heights 66%
- La Salle 66%
- Winnetka 64%
- Mattoon 64%
- Freeport 64%
- Peoria 63%
- Clinton 63%
- Decatur 63%
- Bradley 63%
- Niles 63%
- Sterling 62%
- Burbank 62%
- Dolton 62%
- South Holland 62%
- Midlothian 61%
- Highland Park 61%
- Mendota 60%
- Oregon 60%
- Pekin 60%
- Rockford 59%
- Lansing 59%
- Glenwood 59%
- Rantoul 58%
- Oak Lawn 58%
- Blue Island 58%
- Princeton 57%
- Steger 57%
- Elmhurst 57%
- Ottawa 56%
- Flossmoor 56%
- Lincoln 56%
- North Chicago 56%
- Pontiac 55%
- Calumet City 55%
- Dixon 54%
- Mount Prospect 54%
- Worth 54%
- Chicago Heights 53%
- Des Plaines 53%
- La Grange 53%
- Joliet 53%
- Chillicothe 52%
- Collinsville 52%
- Hazel Crest 52%
- Waukegan 52%
- Bensenville 51%
- Glen Ellyn 50%
- Hickory Hills 50%
- Springfield 50%
- Lombard 49%
- Murphysboro 48%
- Addison 47%
- Rolling Meadows 47%
- Harvard 45%
- Chicago Ridge 45%
- Rochelle 45%
- Wood Dale 44%
- Clarendon Hills 44%
- Zion 44%
- Fairview Heights 44%
- Deerfield 43%
- Bridgeview 43%
- Downers Grove 43%
- Alsip 43%
- Wonder Lake 43%
- Belvidere 43%
- Hinsdale 43%
- Belleville 43%
- Godfrey 42%
- Palos Heights 42%
- Glenview 41%
- Carpentersville 41%
- Arlington Heights 41%
- Lake Forest 40%
- Elgin 40%
- Ingleside 40%
- Itasca 40%
- Marengo 39%
- Elk Grove Village 39%
- Northbrook 38%
- DeKalb 38%
- Urbana 37%
- Monticello 37%
- Lake Bluff 37%
- Charleston 36%
- Wilmington 36%
- Carbondale 36%
- Wheaton 36%
- Westmont 36%
- Oak Forest 36%
- Aurora 35%
- Machesney Park 35%
- Antioch 35%
- South Beloit 35%
- West Chicago 35%
- Lockport 35%
- Crete 34%
- Crestwood 34%
- Dundee 34%
- Loves Park 33%
- Bloomington 33%
- Plano 33%
- Country Club Hills 33%
- Libertyville 33%
- Morris 33%
- Batavia 33%
- Prospect Heights 33%
- Hoffman Estates 32%
- Mundelein 32%
- Woodstock 32%
- Palatine 32%
- Wauconda 32%
- Champaign 32%
- Palos Park 31%
- Fox Lake 30%
- McHenry 30%
- Streamwood 30%
- Spring Grove 29%
- Sandwich 29%
- Justice 29%
- Cary 28%
- Crest Hill 28%
- Sycamore 28%
- Montgomery 28%
- Barrington 28%
- Coal City 28%
- Metamora 27%
- Columbia 26%
- Wheeling 26%
- Roselle 25%
- Glendale Heights 25%
- Darien 25%
- Saint Charles 25%
- Island Lake 24%
- Oak Brook 24%
- Hanover Park 24%
- Crystal Lake 23%
- Winfield 23%
- Willowbrook 22%
- Elburn 22%
- Woodridge 22%
- Romeoville 22%
- Warrenville 22%
- Geneva 21%
- Richton Park 21%
- Lemont 21%
- Round Lake 21%
- Rockton 21%
- North Aurora 21%
Before you call
A pump is tested by pouring water into the pit, not by listening for it. The pages above say what to check and how often.
