Free tow-away for junk cars in Merrionette Park

Do you come into Merrionette Park for just one junk car?

Yes. Merrionette Park is small, but Cash For Junk Cars Junk My Car Inc sends a truck for a single car, a pickup from a mobile home lot or several cars at once. The tow is free, nothing comes off your offer for it, and you are paid when the car leaves, by cash, Zelle or Cash App.

Chicago on every side

Merrionette Park is tiny: 0.38 square miles and 1,969 people at the 2020 census. It is also nearly surrounded by one city. Chicago’s Mount Greenwood and Morgan Park neighbourhoods share every stretch of the village line, and Alsip and Blue Island only touch it at a corner. No US or state route runs inside the village.

That makes the approach simple. Kedzie Avenue is the through street, and West 115th and West 119th Streets cross it. A CSX freight line, the Elsdon Subdivision, also runs through the village, so mention which side of the tracks the car is on. CTA bus 52A serves the village if you need to get somewhere after the car is gone.

A loading stop, not a parked truck

The village keeps heavy trucks off its streets except while they load. Section 72.05 bars second-division vehicles over 5,000 pounds from parking on a street beyond loading time. A pickup is a loading stop: the flatbed pulls up, loads the car and leaves. Non-motorized vehicles such as trailers need a village permit to sit on a street or parkway, and only for up to 48 hours (§ 72.06(B)), so a dead car on a trailer has its own limit.

Mobile homes, plazas and the 115th Street lots

Housing here is a mix. By 2020 to 2024 census estimates (a small sample for a village this size), about 59% of units are detached houses, 23.6% are mobile homes and 17.5% are in buildings of five or more units. Mobile home lots and apartment parking are fine for a pickup; you just clear it with the park or building office first.

The village code names two shopping centres on 115th Street, Stonebrook Plaza and Handy Andy Plaza (§ 72.17). If your car quit in one of those lots, the plaza owner’s okay is what we need, along with the row it’s parked in. A car missing its catalytic converter is still worth selling; our article on how a missing converter affects the price explains why.

What § 72.14 means for a dead car

Section 72.14 is short: it is unlawful to store or park damaged or junked vehicles in any open lot or premises open to public view. Section 72.12 adds that any vehicle parked against Chapter 72 is a nuisance and can be towed to the village pound. In winter, § 72.11 clears residential streets of parked cars once two inches of snow is on them. Put together, a wrecked car has very few places to wait legally outside a garage. Our quote form gets a callback within 15 minutes.

The next towns on the run

From here our trucks continue to Robbins, Evergreen Park, Alsip and Blue Island. Our page on junk car removal across Cook County covers the suburbs corridor by corridor, and the areas we serve list has every town, Indiana included.

Questions we hear in Merrionette Park