SSL INVSpecial Solutions, Ltd. · Est. 1991Call 847.803.6922

Cook County · Near West & Proviso

Private Investigators in
Lyons, Illinois

Lyons sits on the Des Plaines River at a historic portage crossing, with a commercial strip along Ogden Avenue, older dense housing and substantial forest preserve and quarry land on its edges. The preserve land matters practically: large tracts with vehicle access but no residents, where a meeting can take place with no premises and no witnesses.

County
Cook County
Main approach
Ogden Avenue and the Des Plaines River
From our office
About 35 minutes
Established
1991 · 35+ years

Why we are called to Lyons

What makes the work here different.

  • 01Extensive forest preserve and river land with vehicle access but no residents or overlooking premises
  • 02A commercial strip with late-trading premises and high tenancy turnover
  • 03Dense older housing where a single address can contain several separate households

About Lyons

A little history of Lyons.

Lyons sits at a site of real historical significance: the Chicago Portage, the short overland crossing between the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds that made Chicago's position valuable in the first place. Native peoples, then French explorers and traders, used it for generations. The village incorporated in 1888, and quarrying and the canal shaped its later industry.

We have worked across Cook County since 1991. Knowing a community — how it was laid out, how it grew, how people actually move through it — is part of how an investigation gets done properly here.

Most requested in Lyons

Where our work here concentrates.

We offer all twelve practice areas everywhere we operate. These are simply the three that Lyons asks for most.

Surveillance & Cohabitation

Documented, testimony-ready surveillance for maintenance, support, and custody matters.

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Criminal Investigations

Handled by a division led largely by former homicide detectives.

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Service of Process & Locates

Finding and serving people who are difficult to find or actively avoiding service.

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Lyons, Illinois

Talk it through, in confidence.

If something is still in question in Lyons — a case, a claim, a person, a room — call us. The first conversation costs nothing and goes no further.