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

Cook County · Near West & Proviso

Private Investigators in
River Forest, Illinois

River Forest is small, affluent and unusually leafy, with two university campuses inside a village of modest size and substantial homes on deep lots beside the Des Plaines River. The combination is distinctive: quiet residential streets where any stationary vehicle stands out, alongside campus populations that come and go on entirely different schedules.

County
Cook County
Main approach
Lake Street and Harlem Avenue
From our office
About 32 minutes
Established
1991 · 35+ years

Why we are called to River Forest

What makes the work here different.

  • 01Quiet, low-traffic residential streets where a parked vehicle draws attention quickly
  • 02Two university campuses with their own security and a transient resident population
  • 03Substantial properties with river frontage and rear access not visible from the street

About River Forest

A little history of River Forest.

Settled in the 1830s on the wooded banks of the Des Plaines River, the village incorporated in 1880 and developed as a quiet, spacious residential community rather than a commercial one. It attracted notable Prairie School architecture, including work by Frank Lloyd Wright, and two universities established campuses within its small area — a concentration unusual for a village of its size.

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 River Forest

Where our work here concentrates.

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

Surveillance & Cohabitation

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

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Background, Asset & Income Research

Establishing who someone is, and where the money actually went.

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TSCM — Bug Sweeps

Technical Surveillance Counter Measures and electronic eavesdropping detection.

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River Forest, Illinois

Talk it through, in confidence.

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