About 925 miles on one truck with one crew, and no warehouse or hand-off to another company halfway up I-55. We're a licensed and insured New Orleans to Chicago moving company (license #8127): flat price set before we load, delivery date in writing, building paperwork handled at both ends.
Instant Price Estimate
A Chicago price starts with what's in your home and what each building asks of the crew: a raised Gentilly house on one end and a third-floor walk-up off an alley on the other is a different job from a ground-floor condo. Run the tool below for a ballpark in roughly 60 seconds. After that, a walkthrough sets the flat price before loading, and nothing is added in Illinois without your OK.
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How Our Pricing Works
Give your home size, the stairs or elevators at both ends and any packing, and a Chicago ballpark appears on the page. No callback needed.
A short walkthrough confirms what's going, down to the boxes in the attic, and the flat price comes from that. For a two-day haul up I-55, a phone guess isn't good enough.
After the walkthrough, the Chicago price holds. No fuel add-on, no weight ticket at a scale in Illinois, and no new charges at the alley on unload day.
Most Chicago moves deliver one to two days after loading, on a date fixed at booking. Winter storms on I-55 are the main thing that can push it.
Treat the online figure as a starting point. The walkthrough sets the flat price from what you own, the stairs or elevators, packing and your date.
What We Move on the New Orleans → Chicago Route
Chicago is roughly 925 miles up I-55, through Jackson, Memphis and St. Louis. Lincoln Park and Lakeview buildings often mean an alley load-in or a reserved freight elevator; Naperville usually means a long driveway carry. The crew that loads you Uptown is the crew that unloads you in Illinois, at one flat price.
From a Faubourg Marigny one-bedroom to a four-bedroom in River Ridge, moved door to door to Chicago or the suburbs. The whole house fits on one truck, and the delivery date is fixed before loading.
A studio or a few rooms still rides alone and gets its own date, usually a day or two after loading. We don't park small loads in New Orleans waiting for other freight bound for the Midwest.
Pick full or partial packing and the crew arrives with cartons, paper and pads. Everything is wrapped for two days on I-55 and covered against Chicago rain, snow and slush between the truck and the door.
Starting a job in the Loop or River North? We arrange the certificate of insurance your tower asks for, help book the freight elevator and dock, and give an itemized written quote your employer's relocation team can use.
AD Movers vs. National Van Lines
Most online quotes for New Orleans to Chicago come from national van lines, freight-container services and brokers. Some are good companies, but on a route this long their usual setup, shared trailers and loads held between legs, is what causes the problems below. Here is the comparison that counts when everything you own is in the trailer.
Not every national mover works this way, but these are the long-distance complaints people post most. On a one-to-two-day drive like New Orleans to Chicago, none of them has to be part of your move.
Real Long-Distance Moving Complaints — Solved
Look through r/moving or long-distance mover reviews and the same problems keep appearing, plus one that Chicago towers add. Here they are, and how one AD Movers truck driving straight up I-55 avoids each.
A long-haul complaint we hear often: the delivery window passes, the shipment is still in a warehouse somewhere in the Midwest, and the customer is asked for more money before it moves.
✔Your load stays on our truck. We load in New Orleans and drive I-55 north through Jackson and Memphis to Chicago, with no warehouse and no terminal stop to fill the trailer. You get a set delivery date in writing.
Common on long moves: the estimate is non-binding, the truck is reweighed after loading, and you end up owing much more than you were quoted.
✔Flat rate agreed before we roll north. Your Chicago price is set in New Orleans after the walkthrough. No weight disputes, no fuel surcharge added in Illinois, no holding your things for more money, and nothing new without your OK.
Plenty of people booking an Illinois move don't realize they hired a broker, not a carrier. An unfamiliar crew shows up, and service varies job to job.
✔We're the carrier, not a broker. The crew that loads you in New Orleans drives up I-55 and unloads you in Chicago. AD Movers answers for the move from start to finish.
Loads that get combined and reloaded across depots get moved around, crushed or lost, and the claim is often denied or delayed.
✔Handled once each way. Your items are padded and tied down for the long drive north and handled only at pickup and delivery, never transferred between terminals. Fully insured, and someone actually picks up when you call about a claim.
Watch out for a large deposit you can't get back. Consumer guides and review sites list it as a red flag for rogue movers.
✔No large deposit. A small hold reserves your Chicago date. You pay the rest after the truck is unloaded in Chicago.
Most Chicago high-rises and downtown condos won't let a crew load in without a Certificate of Insurance on file, a reserved freight elevator, and a booked dock window. Show up without them and you're rescheduled — sometimes days later.
✔We handle the building paperwork before move day. We send your Chicago building the Certificate of Insurance it requires, reserve the freight elevator, and book the loading-dock window — so the crew gets in the first time and your set delivery date holds.
Van lines going to Chicago often give a delivery range of a week or more, so a lease start, a new job or ComEd service is hard to schedule.
✔A real date, not a window. Even on our longest route, the truck goes straight through with one overnight stop. You get a delivery day at booking, so the ComEd start date, the elevator booking and your first day at work can all be planned.
What Our Customers Say on Google
Every review below is copied from our Google Business Profile, where we're rated 4.8★ across 115 reviews. Read them all on Google.
“They did an excellent job on my move from New Orleans to Tampa”
“The guys were very respectful and took great care handling my stuff. Highly recommend this company for any packing or moving needs.”
“Great experience! The movers were friendly and super efficient.”
Leaving New Orleans — The Half Nobody Plans For
You're probably thinking about freight elevators and parking signs in Chicago. The New Orleans end has its own version of all that. We've done pickups across Greater New Orleans since 2013, and these are the four we plan for before the truck starts north on I-55.
Royal, Chartres and Dumaine are one-way, barely a lane wide, with no driveways and balconies overhead. A full-size long-distance truck can't work those blocks. We look at the address first, bring a smaller shuttle truck to your door, and transfer the load to the big truck where it can legally park. The shuttle is part of the flat price, and the Chicago truck leaves from a legal spot instead of circling.
Homes raised on piers in Lakeview, Gentilly and across the rebuilt blocks put the front door a full flight of steps up, and every piece comes down those steps. A Chicago greystone or three-flat often asks the same of the crew at the other end. We staff for both staircases, cover the steps, and price both into the flat price when you tell us about them.
From June through November we check the tropical outlook in the days before any load. Rain covers go on regardless, because summer afternoon storms here show up with or without a named storm. If a storm is truly heading for the coast, we'll call you about loading earlier. I-55 carries the truck north and away from Gulf weather within a few hours, which helps a Chicago date hold.
Downtown New Orleans has the same paperwork as downtown Chicago. Managed buildings in the CBD and Warehouse District, around Julia Street and Canal Place, usually want a Certificate of Insurance and a booked freight elevator before a crew uses the dock. We sort the pickup building too, not only the delivery one, which is where movers often get caught. Two buildings, two certificates, one crew.
Moving to Chicago — What Locals Wish They'd Known
Most New Orleans families we move to Chicago are going for a career step, the food and culture, and neighborhoods where you can live without a car. Here's the good part, the local realities, and how we handle them on delivery day.
Chicago is a serious food and culture city laid out on a walkable grid with the L and buses, and each neighborhood, from Lincoln Park and Lakeview to Wicker Park, Logan Square and Hyde Park, has its own feel. Add the lakefront path, the museums and two baseball teams, and city living there is hard to argue with.
Chicago winters bring snow, ice and bitter wind chill, which is a shock after New Orleans. In cold months we blanket and wrap everything against moisture, lay floor runners for salt and slush, and watch the I-55 forecast in the days before so the delivery date holds.
Chicago condo and apartment towers commonly require a Certificate of Insurance, a reserved freight elevator and a booked move-in window before a crew can start. Send us the building's rules and we line it all up ahead of time, so the crew gets in on the first try after two days on the road.
Street parking is tight on most city blocks, and the city's transportation department (CDOT) issues enforceable no-parking signs for move day. We arrange the signs with you several business days ahead, plan the carry up greystone and three-flat stairs, and time arrival around Kennedy and Dan Ryan rush hour. On a flat price, that's our problem, not a surcharge.
The Drive, Mile by Mile
Chicago is our longest regular route. Here's how 925 miles works without your things ever leaving our truck.
Jackson, Memphis, St. Louis, then Chicago: one interstate nearly door to door. It's the most direct road there is, which keeps the delivery date realistic.
Driver hours-of-service rules mean a truck stops for the night on a trip this long. Your load stays locked on our truck overnight, never unloaded into a warehouse, and it's rolling again the next morning.
Many Chicago moves happen from the alley, and two-flats and three-flats often have narrow back porches and stairs. We look at the building before move day and decide which door each big piece goes through.
Why Choose AD Movers for New Orleans → Chicago
AD Movers has moved Gulf South families since 2013 and done more than 1,000 moves. This is how a Chicago move with us compares with a van line or broker quote.
How It Works
Get a ballpark, pick your dates, and the truck drives straight to Illinois.
Get a ballpark New Orleans to Chicago price from the form above in about 60 seconds. No phone call, no waiting on email; after the walkthrough it becomes a flat price.
Choose your load day; delivery follows one to two days later. Elevator reservations, a building COI, CDOT signs, packing or a hard start date all get worked into the I-55 schedule.
Our crew wraps and loads your home, drives the truck north to Chicago, and unloads on the date we agreed. The same truck and crew handle it from start to finish.
Your New Orleans → Chicago Crew
The people on your truck are background-checked AD Movers employees who answer to the owner, Adonay Pineda. They blanket-wrap furniture, pad door frames and elevator walls, and have handled everything from Mid-City studios to Uptown four-bedrooms. We pick up across Greater New Orleans and deliver across Chicago, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Logan Square, Hyde Park, Oak Park and Naperville.
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Built for the 925-Mile Run
Every truck carries pads, dollies, hand trucks and highway straps. The load is built in tiers and strapped so it rides two days without shifting, and nobody touches it overnight. As a licensed and insured New Orleans to Chicago moving company, we drive it ourselves to your door, whether that's a dock downtown or an alley behind a two-flat.
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Routes & Areas We Serve
We pick up anywhere in Greater New Orleans and deliver across Chicagoland. If your move is headed to Texas or Georgia instead, these routes run the same way.
Coming the Other Way
We run this route both ways. Most people coming south from Chicago are done with winter — and trading a walk-up for a raised New Orleans house takes planning at this end too.
Snow and cold rarely cancel a move, but they change how it's done. We watch the pickup-day forecast and protect floors and furniture from slush, salt and ice.
Raised houses, shotgun doubles, the Quarter's narrow streets and parade season: your New Orleans delivery is planned before the truck leaves Chicago.
Northbound or southbound, it's a walkthrough and then one flat price. Call 504-237-0855 to get a Chicago pickup priced.
Common Questions
We show up when scheduled, your load rides alone, it arrives on the date we set, and the bill matches the flat price. No reweigh, no warehouse stop, nothing added without your OK. Snow, ice or a closure on I-55 can still push a date, and if that happens we call you first. If something isn't right, you talk to us, not a dispatcher three companies removed.
Ready to Move to Chicago?
Licensed and insured, one truck and one crew from New Orleans to Chicago, a flat price set before loading and a firm delivery date, usually within two days. Get a ballpark in about 60 seconds.
AD Movers is a licensed & insured New Orleans moving company providing local and long-distance moving across the areas we serve.
