Junk car buyers in Logan Square

Logan Square is built around its boulevards. The square itself sits where Milwaukee Avenue meets Logan Boulevard and Kedzie Boulevard, with the Illinois Centennial Monument, designed by Henry Bacon and put up in 1918, at the centre. The neighbourhood runs roughly from the Metra Milwaukee District North line on the west to the North Branch of the Chicago River on the east, and from Diversey Parkway down to the Bloomingdale Trail, The 606.

The boulevards are a protected landscape: the Logan Square Boulevards Historic District went on the National Register in 1985 and became a Chicago Landmark in 2005. Along them and the side streets you get greystones, big bungalows and two-flats, with Milwaukee Avenue as the main artery. The elevated line, today’s Blue Line, reached Logan Square in 1895.

What that means for a junk car: boulevard traffic makes it hard for a tow truck to stop, so picking the right pickup spot is most of the job.

• Give us a side street, not the boulevard. Traffic around the square and along Logan, Kedzie and Milwaukee makes loading a car there difficult. The nearest residential cross street is better.
• On a service drive? Say so, and say which side of the boulevard.
• Street-parked and not running? Don’t leave it for long. The Chicago City Clerk lists junk vehicles among the vehicles that may not park on residential or business streets.
• Alley garage behind a two-flat? Tell us whether the car rolls and whether the garage door opens fully.
• Paperwork: the title if you have it. No title? Say which papers you have; Illinois law decides which ones count, and we’ll confirm on the call.

Salvage-branded cars, half-finished projects and cars that stopped running between street-sweeping days: whatever yours is, get more than one number before you sell. Offers for salvage cars in particular spread widely, and selling a salvage title car explains why.

The fair way to compare is to give every buyer identical details and ask each one the same five questions. How to compare junk car quotes sets it out step by step.

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