Web development and SEO for Chicago distributors and local businesses
From wholesale catalogs in the western suburbs to storefronts on 26th Street, we build the web tools Chicago companies actually use.
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Local time
- — · Central Time: same clock as Torreón in winter, one hour ahead of us during US daylight saving time
- Currency
- USD
- Population
- About 2.7 million in the city and roughly 9.5 million in the metro area
- How we work
- Video calls · bilingual team
Mercado Monkey is a bilingual digital agency based in Torreón, Mexico that works with Chicago businesses on Web development, E-commerce, SEO, Automation — remotely, in your time zone, since 2017.
Chicago is the Midwest's freight and manufacturing hub: the nation's busiest rail junction, O'Hare's cargo operations, food processing and thousands of distributors spread across the suburbs. Many of those companies still take orders by phone, email and fax, and their buyers increasingly expect to look up stock and reorder online. Much of our Chicago work is exactly that, building B2B catalogs, customer ordering portals and integrations with the inventory or ERP systems a distributor already runs.
We also work with Chicago's neighborhood economy, especially the Mexican and Latino businesses of Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards and Cicero, along some of the city's busiest commercial corridors. For them we build bilingual websites, local SEO by neighborhood and suburb, and WhatsApp automations that answer customers instantly. We're a nearshore team in Torreón on Central Time, sharing your clock most of the year, at rates well below a Loop agency.
Hispanic market. Close to a third of Chicago is Hispanic, including one of the largest and longest-established Mexican communities in the US in Pilsen, Little Village and Back of the Yards, and a strong Puerto Rican community in Humboldt Park.
What we do for businesses in Chicago
Web development
Fast, search-ready websites built so Chicago customers actually contact you.
See service E-commerceE-commerce
Online stores with payments, shipping and catalog ready to sell in Chicago and beyond.
See service SEOSEO
Rank in Google Search and Google Maps for local searches in Chicago.
See service AutomationAutomation
n8n, WhatsApp and CRM workflows so no Chicago lead waits for a reply.
See serviceBuilt for Chicago's economy
Distribution and manufacturing
B2B catalogs, quote tools and ordering portals for industrial, food and parts distributors.
Logistics and trucking
Corporate sites, driver recruiting funnels and local visibility for operators near O'Hare and the rail yards.
Neighborhood retail and restaurants
Bilingual sites, online ordering and local SEO for businesses in Pilsen, Little Village and Cicero.
Construction and trades
Suburb-specific pages, project galleries and ads for remodeling, roofing and concrete contractors.
Professional services
Credible sites with genuinely useful Spanish content for tax preparers, immigration attorneys and insurance agencies.
Areas we serve in Chicago
- The Loop
- River North
- West Loop
- Pilsen
- Little Village
- Schaumburg
Chicagoland is one of the country's biggest local markets, and Google treats Cicero, Berwyn and Aurora as separate searches. Service businesses compete in Maps, Yelp and Local Services Ads, with strong seasonality from winter. In B2B, buyers now expect online catalogs with stock and account pricing. In Latino neighborhoods, Spanish-language content and WhatsApp remain decisive for winning and keeping customers.
We share Chicago's clock in winter and run one hour behind in summer, so your full business day overlaps ours. Work runs through video calls, a shared board and daily email or WhatsApp updates. Billing is in USD with contracts in English or Spanish. For catalogs and portals, code lives in your repository from the start, with documentation your IT team can work from.
Results we can show
How we get started
- 01
30-minute call
Tell us what you sell, who buys it and what isn't working. Free.
- 02
Audit and proposal
We review your site, Google Business Profile and local competitors, then send scope, timeline and deliverables.
- 03
Weekly sprints
Progress every week on a shared board plus a short video call to approve.
- 04
Launch and measure
We go live, wire up Analytics and conversions, and report what moves month by month.

