Chicago
Built for Chicago West Loop restaurants on Restaurant Row, Loop and River North professional practices, Wicker Park and Logan Square independents, and Pilsen and Little Village bilingual operators — designed for clients who land on your site from a phone in Naperville, Madison, or New York.
USD pricing · Stripe / Square / ACH · Bilingual EN/ES · Illinois BIPA-aware
Chicago's small-business mix runs across a different spread than the coasts — a Restaurant Row place in the West Loop, a Loop consultancy, a Wicker Park creative shop, a Logan Square neighborhood bar, a Pilsen bakery whose customers are 80% Spanish-speaking. The shared problem is that Chicago small businesses sit between the price-pressure of a Midwest market and the design-expectation of a coastal one — and most websites built locally either look ten years out of date or were built for New York rates and never quite landed.
Chicago agency rates have climbed since the West Loop boom — a custom build in 2026 typically runs $7,000–$30,000 with a maintenance retainer of $400–$1,200/month on top. For a single-restaurant West Loop operator, a three-person consultancy in the Loop, or a Wicker Park boutique, that's the price of a Restaurant Week buyout or a year's Magnificent Mile-adjacent retail-association dues; the website has to compete for that budget against tangible costs.
We replace the agency-and-retainer model with a fixed monthly USD price. Design, hosting on a global edge network, your .com or .chicago domain, ongoing content updates, bilingual EN/ES delivery for the Pilsen / Little Village audience where it matters, and Illinois BIPA-aware data handling — all in one bill. The site loads as fast for a customer on Xfinity 5G in Hyde Park as it does for a partner reviewing it from a phone in Madison.
West Loop & River North hospitality
Tablet-readable menus that update in seconds, a reservation form (or OpenTable / Resy / Tock embed where you already use one), photography that survives a phone screen at the door, Restaurant Week and James Beard-aware copy that reads to a national audience, and private-event copy for the corporate buyer planning a Magnificent Mile-adjacent buyout.
Loop & Mag Mile professional services
A clean partner-led site with proper bios, sector or practice-area pages, an inquiry intake form that routes by matter type, and Illinois BIPA-aware data handling for businesses that capture biometric data (face-scan kiosks, fingerprint-clock systems, voice-IVR) — plus the discretion the audience expects. ARDC-aware copy for the law-firm side.
Neighborhood independents
Photography-first pages that hold up next to your Instagram, opening hours that update without a developer call, simple e-commerce or click-and-collect for retail, and bilingual EN/ES delivery for Pilsen and Little Village businesses where the Spanish-speaking customer is most of the audience — not a translate-button afterthought.
Starter, monthly
$19fixed
Same monthly USD price across every Chicago neighborhood — no hidden hosting charges, no add-on fees for SSL, content updates, or the .com renewal.
Payments
Stripe · Square · PayPal · Authorize.net
Stripe, Square, and ACH all supported out of the box — connect existing accounts or open new ones with our help during onboarding. Apple Pay and Google Pay enabled by default for hospitality and retail flows.
Compliance
Illinois BIPA · Illinois Consumer Privacy · CAN-SPAM
Cookie banner configured for state-of-Illinois requirements, a privacy policy aligned to your sector, BIPA-aware copy and consent flow for any business capturing biometric data (the BIPA class-action plaintiffs' bar is real and active in Illinois), and CAN-SPAM-compliant email infrastructure.
Pick a plan, take the two-minute quiz to match brief, or send us a couple of lines about what you need.