Chicago metro · City, suburbs, Lake County & the North Shore
A website design company in Chicago and the suburbs: web designers and a local SEO team for small businesses across the city, Lake County and the North Shore. One owner, no handoffs.
Sites from $150/mo (landing page) · Buy out any time · Call back within the hour
Search your business name and get a real Google Business Profile score in about ten seconds — which fields are costing you map-pack visibility, and what to fix first. No email, no call, no catch.
Real score, instantly. We don't ask for your email to show it to you.
Free local SEO audit
Grab our 7-Point Local SEO Checklist for Chicago-area service businesses. Score yourself in five minutes, no call required.
Recent work
Every one is a working site you can visit right now. Where we have the numbers, they're here; where the client's still ramping, you get what shipped and how fast.
Services
Start with what you need today; add the rest when the business is ready. No bundles you didn't ask for, no lock-in.
Free · No email required · ~10 seconds
Type your business name and get a real Google Business Profile score. Which fields are costing you Map Pack visibility, and what to fix first. No email, no call, no catch.
Your score out of 100, with the three things holding it back, ranked by how much they would move the needle.
Meet the owner
I'm Izaac Lopez. I spent years in enterprise infrastructure, service delivery and senior service-desk engineering for managed IT providers, before starting Spark N Code in 2019 to bring that same standard of work to the Chicago-area businesses national agencies overlook. There's no account manager and no offshore team. When you call, you reach the web designer building your site.
You talk to the person doing the work: no account managers, no offshore handoffs, no telephone game.
Your site is designed to be found from day one, because the person building it also does your SEO.
Based in the Chicago metro, with an office in Libertyville and a service area across the city and suburbs: real knowledge of how people here search.
Who it's for
The shops and service businesses we know best — odds are yours is on this list.
Where we work
Chicago and the suburbs, Lake County, the North Shore and Kenosha County: three connected markets served in person by the same owner, and the rest of the country served remotely.
Our home region — communities from Zion to Highland Park, serving Route 41, I-94, US-45, and the North Shore Metra. The same owner on every project, in every city.
Route 41 · I-94 · US-45 · North Shore Metra
Explore Lake County
The city and suburbs, from Naperville to Evanston: Loop-caliber web design and SEO without the downtown overhead.
North Side · West Loop · River North · North Shore
Explore Chicago Metro
Serving Kenosha County from just south of the Wisconsin–Illinois border. Unique dual-state expertise — capture both Wisconsin locals and Illinois customers with one coordinated cross-border strategy.
I-94 · Highway 50 · 52nd Street · Lakefront
Explore Kenosha County“Very professional and knowledgeable web development team. Highly recommend Spark N Code for anyone looking to grow their business online with professional SEO services and custom website design. They understand small business needs and deliver real results.”
“Spark N Code took our Local SEO to the next level. We went from being buried in search results by well established businesses to now ranking #1 in our area for local map rankings. Our phone hasn't stopped ringing since they optimized our Google Business Profile and built out our local citations with their expert local search optimization.”
“Spark N Code transformed our website and SEO strategy. Our online presence has never been stronger, and we have been able to help more people in our community with the professional web development systems and search engine optimization they built for us.”
“The owner kept me up-to-date multiple times a day on the progress made to my website. Any issues I found, he was already in the process of fixing. He understood my mission statement and accurately applied my vision within his designs. He also provided business cards and door hangers that were done swiftly and executed exceptionally.”
“The owner helped me start my new website. He was affordable and very knowledgeable.”
From the blog
Your Google profile wins "near me." Your website wins "how much" and "how long." Most Chicago businesses only show up for one.
Read the article →Winter work gets researched in fall. GBP changes take weeks. Contractors who wait until January miss the season they meant to win.
Generative engine optimization isn't a new channel—Google says it's still SEO. Keep/kill checklist for GEO, AEO, and Lake County businesses.
Google Maps doesn't see the state line. For businesses in Kenosha County and Lake County, the border is a market opportunity most profiles are accidentally configured to ignore.
Questions
From $150/mo fully managed, or a one-time build you own outright.
It is a managed site: the monthly fee covers hosting, updates and ongoing changes, not just the build. At the two-year mark you choose: keep the site and pay only for hosting, move it to another platform, or start a redesign, which restarts the ownership cycle. Want out sooner? You can buy the site out at any time for the build fee.
Both — same person, so the build and the marketing actually fit.
One to two weeks for a landing page, three to six for a business site, and eight to twelve for ecommerce or custom builds.
Chicago and the suburbs in person, from Naperville to Evanston, plus Lake County, the North Shore and Kenosha County, WI. Remote anywhere else.
Both, by one person. Spark N Code is a web design agency in Chicago and the suburbs that also does the local SEO and Google Business Profile work, so the site and the marketing are built to fit. If you want a Chicago digital marketing agency with departments and account managers, that's not us; if you want the web designers in Chicago who also answer the phone, it is.
Thirty minutes, no slide deck, no hard sell. I'll tell you what I'd do, what it costs, and whether we're the right fit — even if the honest answer is that we're not.
