JKC Chicago | Build On Excellence. JKC  Chicago; John Keno and Company; JOHN KENO; Earthwork; Excavation; Ravine Restoration; Heavy Civil Construction; Site demolition; Structural Demolition; Riprap; Site Utilities; Grading; Shoreline restoration; reconstruction Restoration; Marine construction; Excavating contractors; excavation contractors; earthwork contractors; grading contractors; excavating; underground utility installation; Chicago Construction; excavating construction; sitework contractors; large excavation contractors; nearby excavation contractors; earthmoving; Site work contractors; site work; urban construction; urban earthwork; urban contractors; dirt; dirt contractors; the dirt; contractors Illinois; Chicago; O’Hare; ORD; Wauconda; Lake County; Cook County; Lake County Contractors Association; Great Lakes Construction Association; Illinois Civil contractors; northern excavating; lake county grading; LCGC; Pleasant Prairie; road construction; civil construction; civil contractors; utility construction; utility installation; specialty construction; contractors in Illinois; #Candowilldo; TEAM KENO; TEAMKENO; Union Construction; Vignocchi; Berger Excavating; berger construction; Lindahl Bros; Lindahl; Lindahl Construction; DK Contractors; Quality excavation; AW Oakes; Komatsu America; Roland Machinery; Patten Industries; Shabica; Shabica and Associates; Winnetka; beach; shoreline; shoreline stabilization; shoreline construction; beach; beach construction; ravine; ravine reconstruction; ravine stabilization; revetment; Wilmette; Wilmette groins; Evanston shoreline; Kenilworth shoreline; marine construction; marine; Gillen; Kadinger; lloyd beach Winnetka; Lloyd beach; lake bluff beach; sunrise beach; lake bluff sunrise beach; sand nourishment; beach sand; beach nourishment; streambank reconstruction; streambank; streambank stabilization; Rosewood Beach; Highland Park Park District; Chicago Botanic Garden North Lake; pocket beaches; groins; breakwaters; armor stone; stone groin; steel groin; earth retention; Beach Builders; beaches; beach We are a family-held business expanding into its third generation. Since the mid-1930s “Keno” has delivered much of the construction and excavation work for many of Chicago’s most iconic buildings, road and shoreline.