How to get rid of a mattress in North Chicago, IL.

If you are replacing the mattress, the shop will often take the old one when they deliver. Usually one old mattress per new one, and only if it is dry and clean.

Casper

Free

Casper mattress order with In-Home Delivery & Setup ($249), continental US; one used mattress per mattress ordered. Sanitary condition judged on site; box springs must be removable intact. Source

Havertys

Free

New mattress delivered by Top Drawer Delivery. Not stated on page. Source

Purple

Free

Non-California: free with Rejuvenate mattresses; $200 add-on for select Essentials/Restore mattresses. Mattress only (no box springs); unsanitary mattresses may be refused. Source

Raymour & Flanigan

Free

New mattress purchase with delivery; free with mattress set of $500+. Safe, sanitary, free of rips and tears. Source

Rooms To Go

Free

New mattress with full service delivery. Not heavily soiled; not with Doorway Delivery. Source

Established for the county as a whole, so it applies across North Chicago and its neighbors.

• The Solid Waste Agency of Lake County (SWALCO) runs no mattress recycling program. Its 2026 Legislative Policy standing-policies document, dated December 12, 2025, says under 'EPR for Mattresses': 'Currently four states (CT, CA, RI, and OR) have EPR laws for mattresses... The fee per mattress and box spring is between $16.00 and $22.50 in the four states... This product is being focused on by the IL Product Stewardship Council due to the recent increase in costs to dispose of mattresses, between $75 to $100 at the landfill or transfer station... An independent hauler reached out to SWALCO in the spring letting us know about the increased cost to dispose of mattresses. This is a cost that may impact whether haulers will continue to collect mattresses and box springs as a bulk item under residential collection contracts without an additional charge. The recommendation is to work with the IL PSC to develop and introduce a mattress/box spring EPR bill in 2026.' This is advocacy for future state legislation, not a current SWALCO service. Source Not confirmed: SWALCO names no Lake County facility, fee or event for mattresses. Not confirmed: The $75 to $100 figure is SWALCO's description of what haulers pay at a landfill or transfer station, not a published resident drop-off price.
• SWALCO's Special Material Collection Services are the agency's only appointment-based collection, and they do not cover mattresses. The published list is labeled single-use propane cylinders at $4.25 each, fire extinguishers at $3.00 each, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors at $12.00 each, and household batteries free of charge. The page states: 'These events are available by appointment only and will take place on one Wednesday every other month for residential waste only.' SWALCO publishes no county-wide bulky-item curbside collection; bulky pickup in Lake County is set by municipal hauler contracts. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say where residents of unincorporated Lake County should take a mattress. Not confirmed: No county-level bulky-item program, fee or eligibility rule is published.
• Not an option: SWALCO's clothing and textiles collection bins, its county-wide reuse channel, refuse mattresses. The acceptable/unacceptable items page lists 'Mattresses' among unacceptable items, alongside carpet, cushions, pillows, rugs and 'Wet, Odorous, or Moldy Items'. SWALCO publishes no county-wide donation route that takes mattresses. Source
• The Round Lake Transfer Station at 201 Porter Dr, Round Lake Park still publishes no gate rate of its own, and the rate card that appears on its page must not be read as one. Waste Connections renders an identical block on every location page in its site template: on the Round Lake page the heading above the table reads "Travis County Landfill Rates / Travis County Landfill Hours & Rates", and the same table - "C&D Gate Rate (per ton) $126.50", "Minimum Load Rate (2 tons) $253.00", "Safety Vest $21.65", "Hard Hat $21.65", "Mattress/Box-spring Fee $86.25 Priced individually", "Tires (No Whole Tires) $123.50/ton, 2-ton min." - appears byte-for-byte on the Travis County Landfill page (Austin, Texas) and on the Champ Landfill page (Maryland Heights, Missouri). The same template carries payment terms for "Cold Canyon Landfill" demanding "a valid California ID", and FAQ blocks for sites in New Mexico and Missouri. The only text on the page that is specifically Round Lake's is the address "201 PORTER DR,ROUND LAKE PARK, IL 60073", the phone 847-693-2700, the note "(Formerly known as Durham/RAD Landfill)", the accepted-materials list that includes "Household municipal waste (Includes carpet, furniture, mattresses)", the disposal hours "8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday - Saturday - Closed Sundays and all major holidays", the hand-off loading hours "7am- 10am & 12pm-2pm Monday-Friday", and the tarping rule "YES, ALL loads must be covered/tarped and/or secured in such a manner that no waste or debris can fly out, fall out or become airborne in anyway. Uncovered/unsecured loads will be charged double, no exceptions." So a Lake County household can still learn that the site takes a mattress and when it is open, and cannot learn what it will be charged. Source Not confirmed: No Round Lake Transfer Station gate rate is published: the $126.50/ton C&D rate, the $253.00 two-ton minimum and the $86.25 mattress/box-spring fee on the page are Waste Connections' Travis County (Austin, TX) boilerplate and must not be quoted as Round Lake's. Not confirmed: No Round Lake-specific minimum load charge, per-mattress charge, payment method or proof-of-residency rule is published, and the site's two stated opening-hour sets (8 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon-Sat in the FAQ; 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays for the general public in the template block) are not reconciled.
• SWALCO, the Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, runs no mattress route, no mattress collection event and no mattress drop-off, and does not fund one. Its own Services index lists the whole of what it offers residents: "Household Chemical Waste (HCW)", "Clothing & Textiles Collection Program", "Special Material Collection Services", "Tire Recycling Collections", "Residential Electronics Recycling", "Reuse-A-Shoe Program", "Pharmaceutical Disposal Options", "Your Neighborhood Programs", "Business Electronics Recycling" and "Holiday Lights Recycling". Mattresses, bedding, furniture and bulky waste appear nowhere on the index, and the agency runs no transfer station, landfill or curbside route of its own - it is a planning and special-materials agency whose member municipalities each contract their own hauler. That matters for every Lake County page: there is no county-level fallback for a mattress, so the answer is always the municipal contract, a private gate, or nothing. Source Not confirmed: The Services index does not state in words that mattresses are excluded; the finding rests on their complete absence from the list of programs the agency runs.
• SWALCO's Special Material Collection Services page, the agency's fullest statement of what it will take from a Lake County household, names every accepted material and none of them is a mattress: "single-use propane cylinders (small only)", "fire extinguishers", "smoke/CO detectors", "household batteries", household chemical waste, "clothing and textiles", tires, "residential electronics", shoes, pharmaceuticals and holiday lights, together with Post Rummage Sale Collections for unsold donated goods. There is no mattress, box spring, bedding, furniture or bulky-item line anywhere on it. Taken with the agency's Services index, this closes the question for the county: SWALCO neither collects nor sponsors collection of mattresses in Lake County, and a resident is thrown back on the village contract. Source Not confirmed: The page does not say whether a mattress could be included in a Post Rummage Sale Collection, which handles unsold donated goods rather than household discards.
• For the six towns covered in this batch - Zion, Grayslake, Libertyville, Lake Zurich, Lake Forest and Deerfield - no local charity, resale shop or furniture bank publishes a policy of accepting used mattresses, and the one Lake County reuse operation that addresses bedding in writing refuses it. Habitat for Humanity of Lake-McHenry's published donation guidelines list "Mattresses/Box springs/Sofa beds" under the heading "We do NOT accept", alongside baby items, books and toys, clothing and linens, dishwashers, electronics and hot tubs, and add that "All donations are up to the discretion of Habitat ReStore staff". Its "Yes, we love these donations!" list covers furniture as "tables, dressers, desks, chairs, hutches, bookcases" - beds and bedding are not in it. The practical effect across all six towns is that reuse is not the answer for a mattress here: the curbside bulk allowance or a private gate is. Source Not confirmed: Local resale shops in these towns - among them New To You in Deerfield and Sparrow's Nest near Zion - publish no donation-acceptance list at all, so their mattress position is unknown rather than a refusal.