Prospect Heights contractor license bonds.
$125 flat.
The City of Prospect Heights, a Cook County suburb in the northwest Chicago metro, requires a contractor to file a $25,000 surety bond with the Building Department before the City will issue a building permit. Ours is $125 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. The bond issues the moment you pay — no credit check.
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How much does a Prospect Heights contractor license bond cost?
$125 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
A city contractor registration bond is about the simplest filing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That is the application. No credit check.
Pay & e-sign
Registration bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase.
File with the City
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Prospect Heights Building Department alongside your permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Illinois does not license general contractors at the state level, so a home-rule and non-home-rule city like Prospect Heights conditions its own building-permit process on a contractor first posting a $25,000 surety bond with the City. No permit for work inside city limits goes to an unbonded contractor.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Prospect Heights (the obligee), with property owners and the City itself as the protected parties. If a bonded contractor's work causes damage the licensing requirement is meant to guard against, a harmed party can recover against the bond up to the $25,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond has to stay active for the life of your city registration, so we track it and remind you before renewal so your permit privileges don't lapse.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the City. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Prospect Heights Building Department alongside your permit application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $125 at the $25,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
No credit check.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check.
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$125 flat, no credit check, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.