Lindenhurst, Illinois
Concrete driveways, patios and slabs in Lindenhurst
Two things here run against what the villages around it do: a residential driveway is on the Village's no-permit list, and every contractor doing permitted work has to carry a five thousand dollar bond. Worth understanding both before you hire.
We pour across the Chain O Lakes, and Lindenhurst is the village where the assumptions travellers bring from a few miles away are most likely to be wrong in both directions.
Your driveway is on the no-permit list
The Village publishes a list of projects that do not require a permit, and it names patio and driveway on it, alongside doors and same-size window replacements.
That is genuinely unusual around here. Municipalities within a short drive treat a like-for-like driveway replacement as permitted construction, and at least one of them says so explicitly with "replacements included" in brackets. Lindenhurst does not.
Two qualifications, both from the Village's own page. Commercial driveway appears separately on the permit-required list, so the distinction is residential against commercial rather than new against replacement. And the Village asks to be consulted before any interior or exterior change regardless, which is a five-minute phone call and worth making.
The practical effect is a shorter runway than a neighbouring village would give you. Where elsewhere an autumn project can lose a month to processing, here the constraint is more likely to be the weather and the crew's diary.
The five thousand dollar bond
Running the other way, the Village is stricter than most about who may do permitted work. All contractors, plumbers excepted, must carry a $5,000 License and Permit Bond to perform permitted work within Village limits.
- It is obtained through the contractor's insurance company.
- It must be made out to the Village of Lindenhurst.
- It should run for a term of one year.
- Plumbers are the sole exemption, and instead submit an Illinois State Plumbers or Contractors licence with the permit application.
The sentence the Village bothered to emphasise
On its own contractor page the Village writes, in as many words: a License and Permit Bond is NOT a Certificate of Insurance.
Municipalities do not usually spell that out unless people keep confusing them, and the two genuinely are different things. A bond stands behind the contractor's compliance with the Village's requirements. A certificate of insurance stands behind what happens if something goes wrong on your property. One is not a substitute for the other.
So when you are checking somebody, ask for both, and do not treat whichever arrives first as covering the other. Of everything written here, that is the sentence to carry into the conversation, and the Village wrote it rather than us.
Where the two facts meet, and what we will not claim
The bond is written as applying to permitted work. A residential driveway is listed as not requiring a permit. Whether the bond requirement therefore attaches to your driveway job is a reasonable question, and the Village's published pages do not answer it.
We are not going to resolve it for them. That is a question for Village Hall, and it is worth asking, because the answer decides whether a bond is something you can hold a bidder to on your specific job or simply a good sign about who they are.
What we can say without any ambiguity: a contractor who already carries a Lindenhurst bond has been through an insurer's underwriting to get it, which is a meaningful filter whether or not your particular job triggers the requirement.
The hours your crew may work
The Village publishes a construction hours policy, and it is more generous than several neighbours:
- Monday to Friday: 7:00am to 7:00pm
- Saturday: 7:30am to 5:00pm
- Sunday: 10:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday working being permitted at all is worth knowing, and so is the ten o'clock start. A concrete pour is a noisy morning, and a crew arriving at eight on a Sunday would be outside the policy as well as unpopular.
What we lay in Lindenhurst
- Concrete driveways, new and replacement.
- Concrete patios, walks and sitting areas.
- Concrete repair, from a single bay upward.
- Garage and shed pads, pole barn floors, and front steps.
The order we work in here
1. Tell us the basics
The job, the rough size, and whether the property is residential or commercial. That last one matters more in this village than in most.
2. We confirm the position with the Village
Rather than assuming your job is exempt because a list says so. It usually is, and it costs nothing to be sure.
3. We build it, inside the hours
Ground prepared, poured, finished and jointed, worked within the Village's construction hours.
Reading first
- what a driveway costs around here, and what moves it
- repair, resurface or replace, with the price of each
- what a patio costs, variable by variable
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Sources
- Village of Lindenhurst, Do I Need A Permit? - patio and driveway listed among projects not requiring a permit, commercial driveway listed among those that do, the instruction to consult Village Hall before any interior or exterior change, and the construction hours policy. Read 2026-09-09.
- Village of Lindenhurst, Contractor Requirements - the $5,000 License and Permit Bond required from all contractors performing permitted work except plumbers, obtained through the contractor's insurance company and made out to the Village, the one year term, the statement that a License and Permit Bond is not a Certificate of Insurance, and the plumber exemption. Read 2026-09-09.
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