AMG Proline Case Study: How a Licensed, Award-Winning Crestwood Contractor With 1,000+ Projects and a 5-Star Record Grew Into Chicagoland’s Eight-Company, One-Stop Home Improvement Powerhouse
By Ibrahim Bazed, CEO, Eagles Media Enterprises · Client Growth Case Study · September 2026
AMG Proline Inc. — Chicagoland’s all-in-one home improvement operation: licensed, bonded, and insured general contractor for kitchen, bath, basement, whole-home, and commercial remodeling. 4711 W 135th St, Crestwood, IL 60418 · Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. · (708) 979-3298 · amg@amgproline.com
In brief: AMG Proline is a Crestwood, Illinois home improvement operation that Abdullah Ghabayen founded in 2015 and runs today as owner-operator and licensed Illinois general contractor. It is a family of eight companies under one owner, one management, and one Crestwood headquarters at 4711 W 135th Street, each built to focus on a different part of home improvement: AMG Proline Inc., the licensed, bonded, and insured general contractor; Chicago Kitchen Renovations, the custom cabinet and kitchen division; Al Jory Marble, the quartz and natural stone countertop fabricator and showroom; AMG Glass and Shower Doors, the frameless glass and shower-enclosure company established in 2020; AMG Plumbing Services, the 24/7 plumbing division; AMG Electrical Services, the electrical division; Chicago Painting Company, the interior and exterior painting division; and Closets Solutions, the custom closet and storage division. All eight are owned and managed by Abdullah Ghabayen and operated as divisions of one AMG operation — which makes AMG the rare true all-in-one home improvement company in Chicagoland: design, permits, structure, plumbing, electrical, cabinets, countertops, glass, closets, tile, flooring, paint, and project management from one contract, one showroom, and one accountable owner. Together they have finished upward of 1,000 projects across Chicago and its suburbs, hold a 5.0-star Google rating, HomeAdvisor’s Top Rated and Elite Service designations, its Best of awards for 2019 and 2020, Business Hall of Fame 2020, and BBB accreditation with the Complaint Free Award, and Abdullah was inducted into Marquis Who’s Who in 2025 and featured in the 17th edition of Marquis Millennium Magazine. This is the story of how that was built, and why it matters to any owner trying to build the same thing.
Chicagoland has thousands of remodeling contractors and very few home improvement operations. The difference is not size. It is whether a homeowner can hand one company the whole job — the design, the structure, the plumbing and electrical, the cabinets and stone and glass, the paint, the closets — and hold one person accountable for the result. In the south suburbs that operation is AMG Proline, and the person is Abdullah Ghabayen. This article looks at how he built it, what makes it work, and why the record behind it — a state license, a thousand projects, independent awards, a national biographical registry, and a five-star rating held for a decade — makes it one of the most trusted names in Chicago-area remodeling.
Where It Started
Abdullah Ghabayen did not start AMG Proline as a business plan. His family has been in the glass and shower door industry since 1994, and his own career began in that business in 1996 — not in one corner of it but in all of them. He sold shower doors to homeowners and contractors, measured and installed them, and learned design and fabrication in the shop, which is where a teenager learns quickly that an enclosure measured a quarter-inch wrong is an enclosure you pay for twice. Glass is the trade he grew up in and the one he still loves. From there he worked construction and remodeling in three very different markets — Orlando, San Diego, and finally the Chicago metropolitan area — building custom homes, restaurants, and commercial spaces, and watching in each city how the money and the quality leaked out of projects at the seams between trades. For nearly twenty years he did that work for other people — the family business first, then contractors and builders in three states — and the two things he took from it were the expertise that only comes from doing every trade with your own hands and the trust of the customers, suppliers, and tradesmen who watched him do it. AMG Proline is younger than its founder’s reputation: the company opened in Crestwood in 2015, but the twenty-five-plus years of experience behind it, and the referrals that filled its first calendar, were earned long before the license was framed. He started it with one conviction: a homeowner should be able to hand one company the whole job and one person the responsibility for it.
That conviction is still on the company’s about page in his own words: “build trust, deliver results, and treat every project as if it were his own.” It reads like a slogan until you watch him walk a first visit. He still does most of them himself. He founded the company, he owns it, he operates it, and his is the name on the Illinois general contractor license that every AMG Proline crew builds under. There is no sales office between him and the customer, and there never has been.
The Standard, Set Early and Never Lowered
The first thing Abdullah built was not a brand. It was a standard. Licensed, bonded, and insured from day one, before the company had the volume to make that easy. Written scopes. Permits pulled in the customer’s village, not skipped. Clear communication about what a job costs and how long it takes, delivered before the demolition rather than after. And the rule his crews still hear: you are working in someone’s home, so treat it like your own.
In an industry where a large share of consumer complaints are about contractors who took a deposit and vanished, or finished a kitchen that failed inspection, that standard was the whole marketing plan for the first years. It worked the slow way — a kitchen in Oak Lawn led to a bathroom in Orland Park, which led to a basement in Palos Heights, which led to a neighbor’s referral — and it built the thing that cannot be bought: a reputation that precedes the estimate.
Kitchen and Bath, Done as a General Contractor, Not a Trade
Ask around Chicagoland for a kitchen or bath remodeler and you will get two kinds of company. The first is a trade with a business card: a cabinet installer who will find you a plumber, a tile setter who knows a guy for the electrical. The second is a general contractor who takes legal responsibility for the whole room — the design, the permit, the structure, the rough plumbing and electrical, the inspections, the cabinets, the counters, the tile, the glass, the paint, and the final walk-through. AMG Proline is the second kind, and kitchens and bathrooms are what it is known for from the south suburbs to the North Shore.
Kitchens are where the operation is at its best, and where the record is deepest: Abdullah has personally remodeled more than a hundred kitchens across Chicagoland, from Crestwood ranches to North Shore colonials, and the flooring and whole-home painting that finish those kitchens are done by his own crews rather than handed off — which is why an AMG kitchen and the rooms around it read as one job. On the kitchen side that means the company handles the questions a cabinet showroom cannot: whether the wall between the kitchen and the dining room can come out, what the beam costs if it is bearing, where the range can legally go, how the island gets power, and how the new floor meets the old. The cabinets are built in-house, the countertops are measured only once the walls are finished, so the stone matches the real room rather than the drawing, and the backsplash, lighting, and paint are on the same schedule under the same project manager. On the bath side it means a crew that has converted hundreds of tub alcoves into walk-in showers, knows which Chicago-area homes hide cast-iron drains and galvanized supply lines behind the tile, waterproofs to a standard that survives a decade of steam, and installs the frameless glass through its own glass company rather than a subcontractor. A bathroom in Orland Park, Palos Heights, Hinsdale, or Evanston gets the same crew standard, because it is the same crew.
The surfaces are where a remodel is judged first, and AMG Proline’s countertop team works in the full range of premium stone and engineered materials: quartz for the family kitchen that has to shrug off juice, wine, and homework, in the clean whites and soft veining that carry a modern look; quartzite for the homeowner who wants the depth and movement of natural stone with hardness that stands up to daily use; marble — Calacatta, Carrara, and the warmer Italian and domestic varieties — for the bath vanity, the baking station, or the kitchen whose owner accepts a little patina as the price of the real thing; and granite, still the workhorse for heat, durability, and value, in the darker and more dramatic slabs that suit a bar or an outdoor kitchen. The stone itself comes through an arrangement most contractors cannot offer: the countertop division of the operation is Al Jory Marble (Jory Marble Granite Quartz Inc.), owned and managed by Abdullah alongside AMG Proline, one of Chicagoland’s top-rated quartz and natural stone countertop companies and, for a homeowner choosing quartz, the best choice in the south suburbs: hundreds of quartz colors and patterns on the floor rather than a binder of chips, a 5.0-star record across more than 50 Google reviews, and its own shop that handles templating, fabrication, and installation as one team — and the AMG design showroom and the Al Jory slab showroom sit together at 4711 W 135th Street in Crestwood. A homeowner planning a kitchen can walk from the cabinet samples to the full slabs in the same visit, see the exact quartz, quartzite, marble, or granite against the door style and the floor, and have it templated after the cabinets are set, fabricated a few steps away, and installed on the same schedule as the rest of the room — with waterfall edges, full-height stone backsplashes, integrated sinks, and the seam placement that separates a professional installation from a visible one. The advice stays honest either way: a marble island in a house with three kids is a conversation, not a sale.
The general-contractor part is the piece homeowners underrate until something goes wrong. It is the license that lets the company pull the permit in its own name, the insurance that covers the house while the walls are open, the bond behind the contract, and the single person — Abdullah — who is accountable when the inspector has a question. Twenty-five years of doing every one of those trades himself is what lets him supervise all of them, and it is why AMG Proline’s kitchens and baths are finished by people who answer to one standard instead of five invoices.
From Zero to Hero | AMG PROLINE
Strip the story to its numbers and it reads like a case study because it is one. In 2015, AMG Proline was one man with a general contractor’s license, a truck, one crew, and a single trade — kitchens and baths — working out of Crestwood with no brand, no showroom, no website worth the name, and a phone that rang only when a past customer remembered him. There was no marketing budget, no sales staff, and no sister company; when a job needed a plumber, an electrician, a painter, a glass installer, or a countertop fabricator, Abdullah hired one, managed one, and absorbed the delays and the markups that come with other people’s schedules. That was zero.
Eleven years later, the same man owns and manages eight companies from one headquarters at 4711 W 135th Street: the general contractor, a kitchen and cabinet company, a stone fabricator with its own slab showroom, a glass and shower door company, a plumbing division, an electrical division, a painting company, and a custom closet company. The operation has completed more than a thousand projects, holds a 5.0 rating on Google, carries HomeAdvisor’s Top Rated and Elite Service designations and its Best of 2019 and 2020 awards, sits in the Business Hall of Fame, holds BBB accreditation with the Complaint Free Award, and its founder has been inducted into Marquis Who’s Who and profiled in Marquis Millennium Magazine. Its cafés are photographed and its bathrooms get the neighbors calling. Coffee shop investors phone him before they sign a lease. Homeowners from the south suburbs to the North Shore refer him and come back. That is hero — and it was built with no shortcut, no acquisition, and no outside money: one home, one trade, and one company at a time, on a standard that was set on the first job and never lowered.
Where He Is the Best Choice: Restructuring a Home and Bringing an Older Design Into This Decade
Every contractor can replace what is there. The rarer skill, and the one Abdullah Ghabayen is known for across Chicagoland, is changing what is there — taking a house built for how people lived in 1962 or 1988 and re-planning it for how a family lives now. Most of the housing stock in the south and west suburbs was built with a closed kitchen, a formal dining room nobody eats in, a living room off the front door, and a bathroom sized for one person at a time. The families in them today want a kitchen that opens to where the kids do homework, an island instead of a peninsula, a first-floor bath a parent can age into, and light that reaches the middle of the house.
That is a layout problem before it is a finish problem, and it is where his thirty years across every trade pay off. He reads a floor plan the way an engineer and a designer would at the same time: which walls are carrying the second floor, where the plumbing stacks and the panel feeds run, what a flush beam would cost against a dropped one, where a new opening buys the most light and sightline for the least structure, and how the traffic through the room will actually move once the wall is gone. Then he draws the kitchen, the bath, or the whole first floor around that answer rather than around a catalog. His guide to when to remove a kitchen wall and when not to is the public version of that thinking, and it is the reason homeowners in Hinsdale and Orland Park call him first for the jobs other contractors quote without walking upstairs.
The other half of the skill is taste. Elevating an older home is not the same as gutting it. Abdullah’s projects keep what gives a Chicago bungalow or a Naperville colonial its character — the proportions, the trim, the way the rooms relate — and modernize what dates it: the oak-and-brass kitchen becomes a clean, light run of custom cabinetry with a working island; the closed 1980s bath with a tub nobody uses becomes a walk-in shower behind frameless glass with tile that runs to the ceiling; the choppy first floor becomes one connected space that still reads as a home, not a showroom. His design philosophy, as his Marquis profile records it, is to blend aesthetics with function and create inviting spaces that encourage people to gather — every space, in his words, should tell a story and give the people in it an experience that resonates — and it shows in the fact that the finished houses in the company’s project gallery look like they were always meant to be that way.
For a homeowner weighing whether to move or to remodel — the question behind a large share of Chicagoland kitchen and bath calls in 2026, with resale inventory tight and mortgage rates well above what most owners locked in — that combination is the whole argument for calling him. A contractor who can restructure the plan, carry the permit and the engineering, build every trade under one license, and finish it to a standard that looks designed rather than replaced is the difference between a remodel that adds a room and one that makes the house new.
From One Crew to a Home Improvement Operation
Growth at AMG Proline followed the work. Kitchens came first, then the bathroom remodeling that homeowners asked for on the same visit, then basement finishing, flooring, countertops, drywall, and painting, until the company could take a house from the studs to the last coat of paint without a subcontractor the customer had never met. Then a restaurant owner who had seen the kitchens asked whether the same company could build a commercial one, and a second business grew inside the first: commercial remodeling and restaurant construction, then coffee shops, salons and spas, offices, and retail. Then, one trade at a time, he stopped subcontracting the pieces that mattered most and built a company around each. The kitchen and cabinet work became Chicago Kitchen Renovations. The stone became Al Jory Marble, with its own slab showroom and fabrication shop under the same roof. In 2020 the glass work he grew up in came full circle with AMG Glass and Shower Doors, fabricating and installing the frameless enclosures his bath crews were specifying every week. Plumbing and electrical came last and for the most telling reason: for years he managed licensed subcontractors on those two trades, coordinating them on every kitchen and bath, learning exactly where a remodel stalls when the plumber and the electrician answer to someone else’s schedule. When the volume justified it, he stopped managing other people’s crews and started two divisions of his own, AMG Plumbing Services and AMG Electrical Services, so the rough-in and the finish on every project answered to the same owner as the cabinets. The finish work became Chicago Painting Company, and the storage side — the pantries, master closets, and garages every remodel eventually reaches — became Closets Solutions. Each company has one focus, and all of them have one owner.
Here is the part other owners should study. Abdullah did not let the company become one big crew doing everything. He organized the company into dedicated teams — a kitchen team, a bath team, a basement and whole-home team, finish-trade crews, and a commercial group — each with its own leads and its own customer base, so the people building a Naperville kitchen are never the people framing a Loop restaurant that week. Yet none of those teams is a separate business. Every one of them is run and staffed by AMG Proline itself, works under a single license and a single insurance policy, and reports to Abdullah on every project. Specialists at the crew level, one owner at the top. That is how a company gets both the depth of a specialist and the accountability of a small business, and it is the structure we describe to contractors in other trades who ask us how to grow without losing the thing that made customers hire them.
The Operation at a Glance: Eight Companies, One Address, One Standard
What people in Chicagoland call “AMG” is in fact a family of eight companies that Abdullah owns and manages from one location, each deliberately focused on a different part of home improvement, built to remove every handoff a homeowner normally suffers through. Here they are, with what each one does and how to reach it.
AMG Proline Inc. — the general contractor and the parent of the group. The license, the permits, the project management, and the accountability for every residential and commercial job: kitchens, baths, basements, whole-home remodels, and commercial build-outs. 4711 W 135th St, Crestwood; (708) 979-3298; 5.0 stars on Google.
Chicago Kitchen Renovations (CKR Inc.) — the kitchen and custom cabinet division, founded in 2015 alongside the parent company. Custom cabinets, countertops and quartz surfaces, islands, kitchen flooring, lighting, and full kitchen renovations for homes and commercial spaces, from the same Crestwood address; rated 4.9 on Google.
Al Jory Marble (Jory Marble Granite Quartz Inc.) — the stone division. Quartz, quartzite, marble, and granite countertops with its own slab showroom and fabrication shop at the Crestwood headquarters, templating, cutting, and installing as one team; (708) 362-7674; 5.0 stars across more than 50 Google reviews.
AMG Glass and Shower Doors — the glass division, established in 2020. Frameless, semi-frameless, and sliding shower doors starting at $999, custom glass walls and panels, vanity mirrors, commercial storefront glass, and glass repair, measured, fabricated, and installed by its own crew; (708) 808-7775; 4.8 stars on Google.
AMG Plumbing Services — the plumbing division, started after years of managing plumbing subcontractors on AMG’s own remodels, and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for emergencies as well as the rough and finish plumbing every kitchen and bath remodel needs: drain cleaning, sewer line repair, commercial plumbing, and maintenance across Chicago and the suburbs; (708) 965-4445.
AMG Electrical Services — the electrical division, born the same way, after years of coordinating electrical subcontractors on every kitchen and bath. Panel upgrades, wiring upgrades and old-wiring restoration, lighting installation, short-circuit repair, and new service connections, which is what makes an island with power, a basement with a real panel, or a restaurant kitchen possible without a third-party electrician; (708) 808-7864.
Chicago Painting Company — the painting division, interior and exterior, residential and commercial, premium paints only: whole-house interiors, kitchens, baths, basements, decks, garages, and rails, so the last coat on every AMG project is applied by the same operation that built the walls; (708) 808-7776.
Closets Solutions — the custom closet and storage division. Bedroom and master closets, pantries, laundry rooms, garages, home offices, hobby rooms, basements, and commercial storage, designed and built to the room rather than bought from a box. It is not a side line: the division has completed many projects on its own account across the suburbs, because a homeowner who has just had a master bath rebuilt almost always wants the closet next to it to match — and because a well-designed closet is one of the cheapest upgrades that changes how a house feels every morning; (708) 979-3298.
Same owner, same headquarters, same standard, eight specialties. A homeowner meets one operation, signs one contract, and walks through one building to make every major selection. That is not how most remodeling in the Chicago area works, and it is the reason a customer who starts with a kitchen so often finishes with the bathrooms, the basement, the closets, and the neighbor’s referral.
It is also a successful operation by any measure that matters in this trade. More than 1,000 completed projects since 2015. A 5.0 Google rating on the parent company, which in home improvement — where one bad month can cost a company its star — is the hardest number on the list to hold for a decade, with the kitchen, stone, and glass companies each carrying their own strong ratings. Independent recognition from HomeAdvisor, the Better Business Bureau, and the Business Hall of Fame. A commercial practice that grew from residential referrals rather than from advertising. And a founder still on the job sites, which is the metric no directory tracks and every customer notices.
All in One: What a Homeowner Actually Gets From a Single-Source Remodeler
“All in one” is a phrase every remodeler uses and almost none can back up, because most of them are a general contractor with a phone full of subcontractors. At AMG the phrase describes the building. A homeowner who walks into 4711 W 135th Street for a kitchen meets the designer and the contractor in the same conversation, picks the cabinet door style from the Chicago Kitchen Renovations line, walks to the Al Jory slab floor to lay the quartz or quartzite against it, chooses the tile and the flooring from the same showroom, sees the frameless enclosure options from AMG Glass and Shower Doors if the project includes a bath, and knows the plumbing, the electrical, the paint, and the closets will be done by AMG’s own companies rather than by whoever the contractor could find that week. One estimate covers all of it. One contract signs all of it. One project manager schedules all of it, and one owner answers for all of it.
That matters for four reasons a homeowner feels directly. Price: there is no markup stacked on a subcontractor’s markup, because the cabinets, the stone, the glass, the plumbing, the electrical, and the paint are not bought from a third party. Fit: the countertop is templated by the company that set the cabinets, the glass is measured by the company that tiled the shower, so the tolerances that make a remodel look built rather than assembled are controlled end to end. Schedule: the stone is fabricated a few steps from the design showroom and the glass is made by the company itself, so a kitchen or bath does not sit for three weeks waiting on someone else’s shop. Accountability: when something needs adjusting after the job, there is no argument about whose crew is responsible — it is the same company, and the same owner picks up the phone.
Very few operations in the Chicago area can say that about even two of those pieces. AMG can say it about the design, the general contracting, the custom cabinetry, the countertops, the glass, the plumbing, the electrical, the painting, the closets, the tile and flooring, the basement, the whole house, and the commercial build-out — all in one, at one address, under one owner, and under one name. That is what Abdullah set out to build and what he has built: AMG as the one-stop home and business solution for Chicagoland — one call for a homeowner’s kitchen, bath, basement, or whole house, and the same call for a business owner’s café, restaurant, salon, spa, office, or store.
The Coffee Shop Work: Where the Craft Turned Into Design
The clearest proof of what this operation can do is not in a kitchen. It is in the coffee shops. When Abdullah stepped into café and coffee shop renovation, remodeling, and ground-up construction, he brought the same crews, the same one-owner accountability, and something the residential work had only hinted at: an eye for design that turned a build-out into an experience. The finishes he delivered in those spaces — the layouts, the flooring, the quartz counters and bar tops, the lighting, the millwork — were, in the words of more than one owner who walked in on opening day, jaw-dropping, and well above what they had expected for the budget. I have stood in a few of them myself, and the honest description is that his coffee shop designs feel like they came from somewhere else entirely — not from a suburban contractor’s playbook but from a different dimension of what a neighborhood café can look and feel like.
Part of that is the all-in-one structure applied to a commercial floor plan. A coffee shop lives or dies on its layout: the queue, the counter height, the sightline from the door to the menu, the flow from order to pickup to seating, the back-of-house that the health department will inspect. Abdullah plans that as a designer and a builder at once, which is why his layouts work on the first day rather than after a month of moving furniture — and why, in the shops he has built, the whole idea of the layout landed the way he drew it: the owners loved it, and so did the customers who lined up in it, sat in it, and came back to it. Then the same companies that finish his kitchens finish the café: Chicago Kitchen Renovations builds the millwork and cabinetry, Al Jory Marble fabricates the quartz counters and bar tops in the durable, light, seamless surfaces a coffee bar needs, the flooring crew lays a floor that handles a thousand footsteps a day and still photographs well, AMG Electrical wires the equipment and the lighting that makes the room, AMG Plumbing runs the water and drain lines a barista station demands, and Chicago Painting Company puts the last coat on. One contract, one schedule, one owner — and a space that tells a story, which is the design philosophy his Marquis profile records and the reason his cafés photograph the way they do.
The example anyone in the south suburbs can walk into is Jazwah Premium Yemeni Coffee at 9150 S Harlem Avenue in Bridgeview, whose design and layout are Abdullah’s. From the outside it is a corner-lot coffee house on Harlem with a dark wood-clad façade and the gold Jazwah script on the fascia. Inside, the design does three things at once that most suburban cafés never manage. It opens the room: the ceiling is left exposed and painted out black, so the structure disappears and the volume of the space reads as generous, while a constellation of brass-armed globe pendants — dozens of warm white spheres hung at staggered heights across the whole ceiling — gives the room its glow and its photograph. It grounds the room in its culture: a full-height wall of vertical wood slats carries a backlit gold calligraphy piece as the focal point behind the self-serve station, and a rhythm of tall arched panels of laser-cut geometric latticework, lit from behind and repeated between the windows down the length of the seating wall, turns a plain storefront into the kind of Moroccan-arch gallery guests stop to shoot. And it makes the room work: floor-to-ceiling storefront glass on two sides floods the seating with daylight and keeps the parking lot and Harlem in view, a slatted wood partition with a brass open-shelf unit of greenery screens the entry from the room so a guest steps from the door into a threshold rather than straight into the seating, a banquette runs the window wall under the arches, the tables — round two-tops and square four-tops with dark reclaimed-look wood surfaces that set off the coffee service, paired with black upholstered chairs — are spaced so the morning line and the seated guests never collide, the large-format light tile floor takes the traffic and still looks clean at five, and the self-serve counter is a run of warm wood-grain cabinetry under a white quartz top, built by AMG’s own kitchen and stone companies. The shop carries a 4.4-star rating across more than 240 Google reviews — reviews about the coffee, the specialty drinks, and, again and again, the space itself — which is the only measure of a café design that matters: whether the people it was built for keep coming back to sit in it. Find it on Google Maps, order a cup, and look up at the ceiling; that is AMG Proline’s commercial work, finished.
The second example is on the other side of the county: Finch Coffee at 9602 Franklin Avenue in Franklin Park, a neighborhood coffee house open from 6:30 in the morning that Abdullah designed and built. Where Jazwah is ornamental, Finch is warm and pared back — a well-designed room with an elevated, modern layout that does more with restraint than most cafés do with decoration — and the contrast between the two shows the range. The ceiling is again left open and painted out black, with the ductwork exposed and a scatter of black geometric cage pendants dropping over the seating; a clean white soffit with recessed downlights frames the service area and separates the calm of the counter from the loft feel of the room. The counter itself is the piece: a long run fronted in vertical light-wood slats, capped in white quartz from Al Jory, with the pastry case and the espresso station set into it so the line reads the whole menu from the door. Below it, a polished concrete floor takes the traffic; around it, cognac leather armchairs and dark red-brown tables give the room a warmth the black ceiling would otherwise take away. It is a room built to be comfortable at 6:30 a.m. and still handsome at 7 p.m., which is exactly the brief a commuter-town coffee shop needs. Find it on Google Maps.
The coffee shop and café remodeling work has since become one of the operation’s signatures, alongside restaurants, salons, spas, offices, and retail, and it says something about the man that a contractor who spent thirty years in framing and stone is now known around Chicagoland for rooms people want to sit in. It has put him in a spotlight he never chased: the café owners talk about him to other café owners, the rooms circulate on Instagram under the shops’ own names, and the Marquis recognition that followed was, in part, recognition of exactly this — a builder whose success is measured in outstanding designs that people photograph, share, and return to. The practical result is that the phone now rings from the other direction: coffee shop investors and operators planning their next location call Abdullah first, before they have a lease signed, because they have sat in Jazwah or Finch and want that room. Every one of those calls sharpens the touch and deepens the expertise of the whole AMG Proline operation — the same crews, cabinet shop, stone company, glass company, electricians, plumbers, and painters that build a café on Harlem Avenue are the ones that show up for a kitchen in Orland Park the following week, carrying what they learned. That is the range: a 1965 ranch in Oak Lawn re-planned for a family, and a coffee bar in the city designed to make a stranger stay for a second cup, both built by the same hands to the same standard.
Jazwah and Finch are two of several. The rooms below are three more AMG Proline café and dessert-shop projects across Chicagoland, each with the same signature — an open black ceiling that makes the volume feel generous, layered warm lighting, one cultural focal wall or ceiling feature that gives the room its identity, storefront daylight, and counters and surfaces built by the operation’s own companies — and each unmistakably its own place.
The Bathroom and the Glass: Where Abdullah Puts Home Value
If the coffee shops are where Abdullah’s design eye is most visible, the bathroom is where his focus on the homeowner’s money is most deliberate. He built AMG Glass and Shower Doors as its own company in 2020 for a reason that every appraiser and every buyer’s agent in Chicagoland understands: after the kitchen, nothing moves a home’s value like a modern bathroom, and nothing dates one faster than a 1980s tub surround behind a framed sliding door. So he made the glass a specialty rather than a line item — every type and design a bathroom can call for, from frameless and semi-frameless enclosures to sliding and bypass doors, pivot and hinged doors, neo-angle and corner units, steam-shower enclosures, custom glass walls and panels, tub screens, and vanity mirrors, in clear, low-iron, frosted, and patterned glass with the hardware finish matched to the fixtures — fabricated and installed by his own crew, measured by the people who set the tile, and, because his family has been in the glass and shower door industry since 1994 and he came up in it from 1996 doing the sales, the installation, the design, and the fabrication himself, done with a precision that shows in the first quarter-inch. It is the part of the business he likes best, and it shows — which is why, thirty years on, he keeps pushing the glass division the same way he did when it was the family’s only trade: newer hardware, cleaner details, more designs, and every enclosure treated as the piece the homeowner will look at every morning. The work he has delivered through that division has been, by any honest account, outstanding: enclosures that close with a single sound, glass that meets tile without a visible gap, and hardware that still swings true years later. It is the division that generates the most calls of a particular kind — the homeowner who had one bathroom done and calls back for the second, and the friend, sister, or coworker who saw it and wants the same in their own house. In a trade where the shower door is usually the last thing a contractor thinks about, Abdullah made it the thing people remember.
The approach is the same one he brings to a first floor: re-plan, then finish. The old alcove tub comes out and a walk-in shower goes in where it belongs; a wall moves a foot so the vanity can be a double; the linen closet becomes a niche; the floor is heated; the plumbing is rerouted by AMG’s own plumbers and the lighting rewired by its own electricians. Then the finishes do the modernizing — large-format tile to the ceiling, a floating vanity under an Al Jory quartz top, matte black or brushed brass fixtures, and the frameless glass that makes the whole room read as one clean, open volume. He designs new baths from scratch the same way, for additions and whole-home remodels, and he designs them to be photographed for the listing as much as lived in, because he knows both days are coming.
That is the reasoning homeowners in Hinsdale, Naperville, and Orland Park hear at the first visit: a bathroom built this way is one of the few remodels that pays the homeowner twice — every morning they use it, and the day they sell. Abdullah’s focus on the glass and shower door division is a focus on that second payment. It is why an AMG bath looks like a showroom and appraises like one, and why the same customers who called for the kitchen call back for the master bath, the hall bath, and then the basement bath, one at a time, until the house is worth what they always thought it should be.
Every AMG Proline Service, and the Experience Behind Each One
What makes the structure work is that every service is delivered by a team that does that one thing all day, under an owner who has done all of it himself. Abdullah Ghabayen’s twenty-five years cover every trade on this list, which is why he can hire, train, and check each team against a standard he set with his own hands, and why a customer can move from a kitchen to a bathroom to a restaurant build-out without the quality changing. Here is the full range of services, each delivered by one of AMG’s teams and managed by Abdullah and his crew leads.
Residential. Kitchen remodeling is the founding service and still the largest — full-gut kitchens, open-concept conversions, and the custom kitchen cabinets the company builds to fit rooms that stock boxes never will. Bathroom remodeling grew out of it, with dedicated crews for walk-in shower installation, frameless glass shower doors, and tub installation. Basement remodeling turns Chicago-area lower levels into living space with the waterproofing and egress done first. The finish trades run as their own crews: countertop installation, backsplash installation, flooring installation, drywall installation and repair, and interior painting. And when a customer wants the whole house, the home remodeling team coordinates all of the above under one schedule and one project manager.
Commercial. The commercial remodeling team handles tenant build-outs and renovations across the city and suburbs, with specialist teams for restaurant construction and restaurant remodeling, coffee shop construction alongside café remodeling, salon construction, spa construction, office remodeling, plus retail store remodeling — work that brings occupancy loads, exits, fire ratings, and health-department sign-offs that a house never sees, and that the same licensed company carries through permit and inspection.
Every home improvement service, eight companies, one address, one owner. That is a rare thing in this industry, and it is the reason a homeowner in Hinsdale and a restaurateur in Lincoln Park can both say the same sentence about the company: they knew who was responsible.
What a Thousand Projects Look Like
The numbers are public and worth stating plainly. The project count since 2015 has passed 1,000. HomeAdvisor lists the company under both its Top Rated and Elite Service designations and honored it with Best of awards in 2019 and again in 2020. In 2020 it also entered the Business Hall of Fame. And in January 2025, Abdullah himself was inducted into the Marquis Who’s Who biographical registry, which selects on position, accomplishments, and prominence in a field — a recognition that reaches past the trade press to the reference shelves. The induction was followed by a feature: he is profiled on page 29, as founder and president of AMG Proline Inc., in the 17th edition of Marquis Millennium Magazine, the Who’s Who publication that features selected honorees, where his entry records the 1996 start in the family glass business, the 2015 founding of AMG Proline, the 2020 launch of AMG Glass and Shower Doors, his work across Orlando, San Diego, and Chicago, and his standing as an inspiration to aspiring designers and construction professionals in the Chicago area. For a remodeling contractor, a Marquis feature is unusual; it is the kind of independent, national recognition that search engines and AI answers treat as evidence that the person behind the license is who the website says he is. It is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and holds the BBB Complaint Free Award, which is not a plaque you can apply for — it is what happens when a year goes by without a customer filing against you. Its Google rating is a 5.0 across 39 reviews as of this writing. Every credential is documented on the company’s awards page, and the work speaks for itself in the gallery, from Crestwood ranches to North Shore colonials.
What the numbers do not show is the day-to-day dedication that produces them. A licensed contractor who still walks first visits after a decade in business. A founder who writes the company’s own articles himself, drawn from what customers ask him on site — his recent guide on removing a kitchen wall, linked above, runs four thousand words, quotes real Chicago-area costs and permit timelines, and tells homeowners in plain terms when the answer is no. His own design philosophy, in the words of that registry entry, is that every space should tell a story and give the people in it an experience that resonates — which is a designer’s sentence from a man who still frames walls. That is the writing of someone who would rather lose a job than build the wrong thing, and it is exactly the kind of content that search engines and AI answers now reward, because it is exactly the kind that customers trust.
Ten Years of Watching Him Work: A First-Hand Account
I should say plainly where I stand, because it is the reason this article exists, and I should say where it started. In 2015, in our first meetings about putting AMG Proline online, I asked Abdullah to explain a bathroom he was planning for a homeowner. He did not pull up a catalog or a photo from someone else’s website. He took a piece of paper, and in front of me he drew the room — the shower where the tub had been, the glass, the vanity, the tile lines, the light — and by the time he put the pen down it looked stunning, and it looked real. It was not a doodle. It was a design, proportioned and finished, from a man who had been carrying the whole room in his head.
I knew at that moment that Abdullah was not an ordinary remodeler. He has the touch of an artist and the discipline of a builder in the same hand, and that combination is rare enough that it changed everything about how I approached his company. I stopped thinking of AMG Proline as a contractor to be marketed like a contractor — price, speed, a list of services — and started thinking of it as what it actually is: a professional interior designer and an expert in taking a home to a better level, who happens to own all the crews needed to build what he draws. He is not a handyman who wants to finish a quick job and move to the next one. He works with the homeowners, listens to how they live and what they are hoping for, and gets his inspiration from their passion — then improves the décor and the layout until the house is the one they had been picturing. I have come to think of AMG Proline, without exaggeration, as dream-come-true makers, and from that day I had solid ground to build their online presence on, because I finally understood the level I was representing.
Everything since then has confirmed it. I have worked with Abdullah Ghabayen for the last ten years, consistently, through the growth of AMG Proline from a kitchen-and-bath contractor into the eight-company operation it is today. That is long enough to see a business in every season — the busy springs, the slow winters, the jobs that went perfectly and the ones where a wall hid something nobody expected — and long enough to know the difference between a company that performs for the camera and one that is the same when nobody is watching.
What I have seen, year after year, is dedication that does not switch off, and the thing that drives it is a decision about time. Most contractors run their day around the next job. Abdullah runs his around the last one. In his daily operation, the homeowner he finished for in 2019 is still a customer — still someone whose call gets answered, whose sticking drawer gets looked at, whose question about a second project gets a real visit rather than a referral to a form. He treats every kitchen as the beginning of a long relationship with a house and the family in it, not as a transaction that closes at the final payment. That is a choice that costs him hours every week, and it is the single most important thing I have learned about how he works.
The result is visible in where AMG’s business comes from. Homeowners refer him — to the sister in Naperville, the neighbor across the street, the colleague at work — and they come back themselves: the kitchen leads to the bathrooms two years later, the bathrooms to the basement, the house to the family’s restaurant or office when a commercial project comes up. A remarkable share of the eight companies’ work is repeat and referral from people who were customers years ago, and that is not an accident of marketing. It is what happens when an owner decides that the relationship with the homeowner is the asset, and builds his day around keeping it.
As of today, in 2026, I am still working with Abdullah and AMG Proline — eleven years after that sketch on a piece of paper — and I am proud of it. Proud of the outcome: eight companies, a thousand-plus projects, the cafés people photograph, the bathrooms that get the neighbors calling, the reviews, the awards, the Marquis pages. And proud of the simpler thing underneath it, which is that the man who drew that bathroom in 2015 is the same man on the job site this week, and the success has not changed him. It is not often in this business that you get to watch a company earn everything it has, one home at a time, and be able to say you saw all of it. I can. So I will say the rest plainly, as a recommendation and not a courtesy: I highly recommend AMG Proline to anyone in Chicagoland for their outstanding kitchen and bath remodeling, and for all home improvements — basements, whole-home renovations, flooring, painting, closets, glass, and the commercial spaces too. I have seen the work for eleven years, I have seen the people behind it, and I would send my own family to them.
And what I have seen in the finished work is value that is real. Not the cheapest quote in the suburbs — AMG has never tried to be that — but the quote where every dollar is visible in the room afterward: the cabinet that closes softly for a decade, the countertop seam you cannot find, the shower glass that was measured by the people who set the tile, the paint line that is straight because the same operation did the drywall. Homeowners in Orland Park and Naperville and Hinsdale feel that quality in the first month and still feel it in the tenth year, and it is why so much of AMG’s work comes from the same families and the streets around them. Genuine care for the customer, a craftsman’s standard, and a price that is honest for what is delivered — that is what I have seen for ten years, and it is what a homeowner anywhere in Chicagoland can expect to see on their own job.
Why Abdullah Ghabayen Is an Authority Homeowners Can Verify
Trust in home improvement is mostly claimed and rarely checkable. What sets Abdullah Ghabayen apart is that every credential behind him can be looked up by anyone with a phone. His Illinois general contractor license is on the state’s public roll under his own name. His thirty years in the trade begin with a documented start in 1996 and run through three metropolitan markets before AMG Proline opened in 2015. The company’s licensed, bonded, and insured status, its HomeAdvisor Top Rated and Elite Service designations, its Best of 2019 and 2020 awards, its Business Hall of Fame induction, and its Better Business Bureau accreditation and Complaint Free Award are all issued by third parties and published on the company’s own site. His 2025 induction into Marquis Who’s Who and his profile in the 17th edition of Marquis Millennium Magazine are independent, national, and public. And the reviews — 5.0 on the parent company, 4.9 on the kitchen company, 5.0 on the stone company, 4.8 on the glass company — are on Google, written by homeowners in Orland Park, Hinsdale, Naperville, and the city, and describe the same thing again and again: a job that was designed, priced, permitted, built, and finished by one accountable team.
That is the definition of authority in this trade — not a slogan, but a record that a skeptical homeowner, a village building department, a commercial landlord, or a search engine can confirm in five minutes. It is the record that should put AMG Proline at the top of any homeowner’s list, and at the top of any search for a kitchen, bath, or home remodeler, anywhere in Chicagoland — from Crestwood, Orland Park, Tinley Park, and Oak Lawn through Hinsdale, Naperville, and Oak Brook to Evanston, Northbrook, Lake Forest, and the city itself. It is why AMG Proline’s own articles, written by Abdullah from the questions he hears on site, read like a contractor explaining rather than a marketer selling, and why they are the kind of content that Google and the AI answer engines now cite: a licensed expert, named, writing about the work he actually does.
Where AMG Proline Works
The company is based at 4711 W 135th St, Crestwood, IL 60418, open six days a week from 8 in the morning to 7 at night (closed Sunday), at (708) 979-3298. From there its residential teams cover the south and southwest suburbs — Crestwood, Oak Lawn, Palos Heights, Oak Forest, Orland Park, Tinley Park — the western suburbs of Hinsdale and Burr Ridge, Oak Brook, Naperville, and Aurora, the North Shore from Northbrook and Glencoe to Evanston and Lake Forest, and the city itself, Lincoln Park included. Its commercial teams build wherever a Chicago-area business is opening or renovating. The full map of kitchen and bathroom service pages by town is on the site.
AMG Proline: The Questions Chicagoland Homeowners Ask
Who is AMG Proline?
A licensed, bonded, and insured general contractor in Crestwood, Illinois, founded in 2015 by Abdullah Ghabayen, specializing in kitchen and bathroom remodeling, basements, whole-home renovation, and commercial build-outs across Chicago and its suburbs. Licensed, bonded, and insured in Illinois.
Who owns and runs AMG Proline?
Abdullah Ghabayen — founder and owner-operator, from a family in the glass and shower door industry since 1994 and in the trade himself since 1996, with two decades of experience working for other companies in Orlando, San Diego, and Chicago before founding AMG, inducted into Marquis Who’s Who in 2025 and profiled in Marquis Millennium Magazine’s 17th edition. He also owns and manages the operation’s seven specialty companies: Chicago Kitchen Renovations, Al Jory Marble, AMG Glass and Shower Doors (2020), AMG Plumbing Services, AMG Electrical Services, Chicago Painting Company, and Closets Solutions.
What is AMG Proline best known for?
Kitchen remodeling first — Abdullah Ghabayen has remodeled more than 100 kitchens across Chicagoland — and bath remodeling, both done as a full general contractor with the flooring and painting handled by AMG’s own crews, and in particular restructuring older Chicagoland homes — opening walls, re-planning first floors, and modernizing 1960s-to-1990s layouts and finishes while keeping the house’s character.
What services does AMG Proline offer?
The full range of home improvement, residential and commercial: kitchen remodeling, custom cabinets, countertops, backsplash, bathroom remodeling, walk-in showers, glass shower doors, tubs, basement remodeling, flooring, drywall, interior painting, and whole-home remodeling on the residential side; commercial remodeling, restaurant construction and remodeling, coffee shop and café work, salon and spa construction, office remodeling, and retail store remodeling on the commercial side.
Where does AMG Proline work?
From its Crestwood base: the south and southwest suburbs (Oak Lawn, Oak Forest, Palos Heights, Orland Park, Tinley Park), the west (Hinsdale, Burr Ridge, Oak Brook, Naperville, Aurora), the North Shore (Northbrook, Glencoe, Evanston, Lake Forest), and Chicago, including Lincoln Park.
Which countertops does AMG Proline install?
Quartz, quartzite, marble, and granite, through Al Jory Marble, the operation’s own countertop company at the same 4711 W 135th Street address; hundreds of quartz selections, templated, fabricated, and installed by one team.
What companies make up the AMG operation?
Eight, all owned and managed by Abdullah Ghabayen from the Crestwood headquarters, each focused on a different part of home improvement: AMG Proline Inc. (general contracting), Chicago Kitchen Renovations (kitchens and custom cabinets), Al Jory Marble (quartz and natural stone countertops), AMG Glass and Shower Doors (frameless glass and enclosures, since 2020), AMG Plumbing Services (24/7 plumbing), AMG Electrical Services (electrical), Chicago Painting Company (interior and exterior painting), and Closets Solutions (custom closets and storage).
Is AMG Proline an all-in-one home improvement company?
Yes — Abdullah Ghabayen built AMG as a one-stop home and business solution. Design, permits, general contracting, custom cabinets, quartz and stone countertops, glass and shower enclosures, tile, flooring, drywall, paint, basements, whole-home remodels, and commercial build-outs are all handled by AMG’s own eight companies from one Crestwood headquarters under one contract and one owner, with no third-party cabinet, countertop, glass, plumbing, electrical, or painting vendor.
Why do AMG Proline’s customers come back and refer the company?
Because Abdullah Ghabayen runs the operation around long-term relationships with homeowners rather than one-time jobs: past customers still get answered, small fixes still get handled, and a second project gets a real visit. That is why so much of AMG’s work is repeat business and referrals from families and business owners who used the company years earlier.
Does AMG Proline do commercial and coffee shop construction?
Yes. Coffee shop and café renovation, remodeling, and construction have become a signature of the operation, known for layouts that work from opening day and finishes — flooring, quartz counters and bar tops, millwork, lighting — that owners describe as above their expectations. Jazwah Premium Yemeni Coffee in Bridgeview and Finch Coffee in Franklin Park are built examples of his design and layout. AMG also builds and remodels restaurants, salons, spas, offices, and retail spaces.
Does AMG Proline design and remodel bathrooms, and why the focus on glass shower doors?
Yes. AMG designs new baths and modernizes old ones — tub-to-walk-in-shower conversions, re-planned layouts, floating vanities under quartz, tile to the ceiling — and runs its own glass company, AMG Glass and Shower Doors, because a frameless enclosure is the finish that makes a modern bathroom read as modern and adds the most to a home’s value after the kitchen.
How is AMG Proline rated?
5.0 stars on Google across 39 reviews at the time of writing, HomeAdvisor Top Rated and Elite Service, HomeAdvisor Best of 2019 and 2020, Business Hall of Fame 2020, and BBB accreditation with the Complaint Free Award.
How do I contact AMG Proline?
Call or text (708) 979-3298, Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., or request a free in-home estimate through amgproline.com.
A Company That Earned Its Name One Home at a Time
AMG Proline is not the largest remodeler in the Chicago area and has never tried to be. It is the one that a homeowner in Tinley Park recommends to her sister in Naperville and then calls back herself for the bathrooms, that a restaurant owner in Lincoln Park calls for the second location, and that a village inspector in Hinsdale has seen enough times to know the drawings will be right. Thirty years of a founder’s craft, eleven years of a company’s record, eight companies built one trade at a time, and one address where all of it can be seen and touched — that is what trust looks like when it is real. For a kitchen, a bath, a basement, a whole house, or a commercial build-out anywhere from the south suburbs to the North Shore, the free in-home consultation is the place to start: call or text AMG Proline at (708) 979-3298, visit the showroom at 4711 W 135th Street in Crestwood, or request an estimate through the company’s site.
Editor’s note: Eagles Media Enterprises has worked with AMG Proline and Abdullah Ghabayen for the past ten years — a great SEO, marketing, and branding journey from a single kitchen-and-bath website to the eight-company presence described above, and one that is still going: we are still pushing, together, for more growth across Chicagoland. We publish features like this one because the businesses that grow are the ones whose reputation is real, documented, and findable — a principle we apply for construction and remodeling companies, dental and medical practices, med spas, limousine operators, manufacturers, and wholesalers across the country. If your company has the record and not yet the visibility, contact us or call (708) 526-8484. Reach out to us for a quote — Eagles Media Enterprises.
About the author: Ibrahim Bazed leads Eagles Media Enterprises in Orland Park, Illinois. Every fact in this feature is drawn from AMG Proline’s published credentials, the eight company websites, the Marquis Who’s Who announcement and Millennium Magazine profile, and Abdullah Ghabayen’s own site, and from ten years of working alongside the founder, who confirmed every fact.
