Aurora, IL · Service area

Aurora Movers

Most weeks an insured Mr Nelson Movers crew is out on a job somewhere in Aurora, and every one of them rides on a single written flat total that stays put from the moment it is locked.

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Hand over a few quick details and back comes a single plain flat rate, with the city parking permit and the downtown high-rise COI already worked into the figure before it ever reaches you.

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The moment this reaches our Belmont Ave office in Chicago, you can count on a written rate landing back with you before that work day is done. Pricing the move falls on us and never costs you a cent, and hitting send leaves you free as ever — live with the figure however long you need, and the go-ahead waits entirely on you. The details you enter reach a single estimator drawing up your quote, and they stop right there at that desk.

4.9 ★ average across 28 reviews 18 years serving Chicagoland 5,167+ moves finished Illinois licensed & fully insured

Movers in Aurora, IL

Aurora is the second-largest city in Illinois and the heart of the Fox Valley — a big, diverse town spread across the river and four counties, with a historic downtown, established east- and west-side neighborhoods, and sprawling new subdivisions on the far edges toward Oswego and Montgomery. The housing runs the full range: Queen Anne and worker Victorians near the old downtown, brick bungalows and ranches through the established blocks, and four- and five-bedroom new construction out on the subdivision fringe. Mr Nelson Movers has driven the I-88 and Route 59 corridors for Aurora work for years.

What we move in Aurora

The older downtown Victorians and two-flats bring narrow center-hall stairs, original woodwork, and a porch staircase a couch has to thread, so we pad the trim and walk big pieces out flat. The established-neighborhood bungalows add the steep attic-bedroom staircase where a box-spring fights the turn, handled with a mattress flex and a frame breakdown. Out on the new subdivision edge the homes are big and easy — wide doorways, three-car garages, finished basements — where volume sets the crew size. Whichever Aurora you’re in, the crew and truck get fitted to the house.

Access and parking

On-street parking runs tighter downtown and through the older east- and west-side neighborhoods, so we lock the spot ahead, bring a truck sized to fit it, and keep the alley in reserve wherever the front won’t work. Out in the subdivisions there’s a real driveway and room at the door, give or take an HOA rule we check ahead. Aurora sits right on I-88 and Route 59, so a move here stages cleanly for a run into the city, down to St. Louis, or out of state.

Why Aurora picks us

You get one written flat rate, the right crew whether it’s a downtown Victorian or a subdivision colonial, and a careful carry through whatever the house throws at it. We’re a licensed Illinois carrier — ILCC Lic. No. 215588, USDOT/MC authority — with our own W-2 movers and trucks, never day labor, never a subcontractor. A 2-mover crew is about $135 an hour, a 1BR lands near $500, a 2BR around $1,300, and a 3BR near $2,300, with the larger homes scaling from there. Released value is the federal $0.60 per pound with full-value protection at one to three percent and a million in cargo coverage, both laid out before move day. Whatever we put on paper is what you’ll owe at the end.

A quick look at Aurora

Moves our crew has handled across Aurora and nearby

Fox Valley hub

Second-largest city in Illinois, spread across the river and four counties

Full housing range

Downtown Victorians, established bungalows and ranches, far-edge new construction

Victorian stairs

Narrow center-hall stairs and a porch staircase a couch has to thread — we float pieces flat

Bungalow attic climb

Established-block bungalows have steep attic stairs — mattress flex and frame breakdown

Easy subdivisions

Far-edge new homes have wide doorways and three-car garages — volume sets the crew

Tight downtown parking

Older east- and west-side blocks run on-street — we scout the spot, alley as backup

I-88 / Route 59

Staged cleanly for the city, St. Louis, or out of state

What a Aurora move costs

Budgeting a move out of Aurora

In-town move (by the hour)

2-mover crewfrom $120/hr

Built into that Chicagoland rate is the truck along with all the equipment our movers arrive carrying — quilted pads, dollies, floor runners, and the rest of it. The clock is metered in three-hour blocks as a baseline, and for the typical Aurora job — a condo, a vintage greystone, a three-flat walk-up — the crew is usually wrapped within three to five hours of starting the shift.

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What people ask us about moving in Aurora

Answers to the usual Aurora move questions

Can you move an older downtown Aurora Victorian?
The downtown Victorians and two-flats are regular work for us. They bring narrow center-hall stairs, original woodwork, and a porch staircase a couch has to thread, so the trim gets padded and big pieces go out flat rather than scraping their way through.
Do you move the bigger subdivision homes on Aurora's edge?
Yes — the far-edge new construction toward Oswego and Montgomery is big and easy, with wide doorways and three-car garages, so volume sets the crew size. A 3BR lands near $2,300 flat and the larger homes scale from there off a two-mover base crew.
Where do you park in older Aurora neighborhoods?
Parking runs tighter on the downtown and older east- and west-side blocks, so we settle the spot in advance, bring a truck that fits it, and fall back to the alley when the front is a non-starter. Head out to the subdivisions and that worry mostly disappears — the truck pulls up at the door.
Can you move us from Aurora out of state?
We run the longer hauls regularly off I-88 — down to St. Louis, Indianapolis, and beyond — on a written long-distance figure. As a licensed interstate carrier under USDOT and MC authority, your goods stay with our own crew the whole way.
Lately around Aurora

Word from the people next door

Karen O.
Karen O. Portage Park · two-bed in Lakeview
★★★★★

Marcus, DeShawn, and Sal were such gentlemen and did a wonderful job!

Google · 2026-02-03
Lamar T.
Lamar T. Oak Lawn · move out to Naperville
★★★★☆

Great service! Very quick, efficient, and helped me put furniture where it needed to go. Thanks guys 5/5

Google · 2025-07-28
Monica K.
Monica K. Des Plaines · two-bed in Lakeview
★★★★★

Marcus and DeShawn were great! They did a fast and amazing job!

Google · 2025-09-02

We have threaded our trucks down these blocks more times than anyone could keep count of.

To our crew, the tight Chicagoland one-way streets, the narrow back staircases, the resident-permit parking, and the COI a downtown building keeps on file are just another ordinary day. Tell us what is coming, and the truck, the pads, and our own movers will all show up together inside one figure long before a single box leaves the floor.

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