Midlothian junk car removal, from the creek streets to Cicero Avenue

Can a flood-damaged car in Midlothian still be towed away for free?

Yes. Cash For Junk Cars Junk My Car Inc takes flooded and hydrolocked cars from any Midlothian street, the Natalie Creek corridor included, and the tow is free. A car that won't start or won't roll is fine, keys or no keys. You are paid at pickup, and same-day collection is often possible.

Four creeks and a lot of low ground

Midlothian sits on water that has nowhere quick to go. Four watercourses run through the village (the Cal-Sag Channel Tributary, Natalie Creek, Midlothian Creek and the Calumet Union Drainage Ditch), and all of them drain to the Cal-Sag Channel. The village’s 2019 Stormwater Management Capital Plan studied flood problem areas in Jolly Homes, the Belly Button Hill neighbourhood along 151st Street, Bremen Heights by Kenneth Avenue and the Natalie Creek corridor. It puts the cause down to channelised creeks and paved-over wetlands, so runoff pools in the low spots until the storm sewers recede.

For car owners, that means water damage shows up here. A car that sat in standing water can end up with a hydrolocked engine, soaked wiring and carpets that never dry out. Some of those cars are worth repairing and many aren’t. Our guide to hydrolocked engines helps you tell which you have, and if it’s the second kind, we tow it away free from wherever it stopped.

Two days, then the garage

Midlothian gives a car that doesn’t run very little time in the open. Under § 4-18-22(B)(7), an inoperable vehicle may not be parked or stored in a residential district for more than two days unless it is inside a garage or a fully enclosed structure, and never in a front, side or rear yard. Two days is not long. If the car won’t fit in the garage, ask for an offer the day it dies; we call back within 15 minutes, and the offer doesn’t expire if you need time to agree.

Commercial vehicles and trailers get their own limit: an hour at most in a residential district, and never on the public right-of-way there (§ 4-18-22(B)(1) and (3)).

Cicero, 147th Street and the Tri-State

Cicero Avenue (IL 50) is the main north-south road through the village, and 147th Street carries IL 83, sharing Cicero for a stretch. A section of the I-294 Tri-State Tollway lies inside village limits. Pulaski Road, Kedzie Avenue and Midlothian Turnpike are the other through routes. Village Hall at 148th Street and Pulaski Road and the Metra Rock Island station are the landmarks drivers know.

Night, snow and the alley

From 2:00 to 5:00 a.m., no car may stand on a village street for more than half an hour (§ 10-15-5). When snow on a street goes past 2 inches, parking stops there until removal is finished, and a car already at the curb has to be moved before the depth gets that far (§ 10-15-12). A car in an alley must leave 10 feet clear and keep off driveways (§ 10-15-6), which suits a flatbed loading from the side.

About 73.8% of homes are detached houses, so most pickups come off a driveway. For the 20.5% of homes in buildings of five or more units, square it with the manager and give us the space.

Neighbouring villages

Midlothian borders Crestwood and Robbins to the north, Posen to the east, and Markham and Oak Forest on the southern side. All of them are on the same south Cook route, which our county page maps out, and the service area list has the rest.

Questions we hear in Midlothian