Waukegan contractor bonds.
0.5% of the bond amount.
The City of Waukegan's Building & Code Department requires a contractor to register annually — a registration that renews every December 31st — and posts a surety bond sized to the trade being registered. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.
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Waukegan contractor bonds are a short, standard-form obligation tied to your annual registration. Enter your amount and file with the Building & Code Department. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the trade you are registering, the bond amount that trade requires, and the effective date — no financials, no credit section.
Approved
The application collects no credit information, so most Waukegan contractor bonds approve instantly — pricing is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
File with the Building & Code Department
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your annual contractor registration, which expires each December 31st. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the contractor license bond actually guarantees
Waukegan's Building & Code Department administers an annual contractor registration — it runs on a calendar year and expires every December 31st, regardless of when in the year you first register. Registration in most trades is conditioned on a surety bond filed with the department before you pull permits.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Waukegan (the obligee), with the city and harmed property owners as the protected parties. If a registered contractor's work causes a covered loss, the city or a harmed party can draw on the bond — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety. It is not insurance for you.
The bond amount depends on the trade you register in. Electrical contractors and most other registered trades carry a $10,000 bond; demolition contractors and excavator/sewer contractors carry $15,000, reflecting the greater risk of that work. Enter the figure your trade requires; the premium is 0.5% of that amount, $100 minimum, and the application collects no credit information.
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These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this application doesn't collect credit information.
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From $100, no credit section. Enter the amount your trade requires and file with the Building & Code Department the same day.