Pickup towns, grouped by how far from Alsip

Where does Top Dollar Junk Cars pick up?

Top Dollar Junk Cars, at 11630 S Cicero Ave in Alsip, buys junk cars across Chicago and its Cook, DuPage and Will County suburbs, plus Northwest Indiana as far as Gary. Towing is free everywhere. Below are all 31 town pages, grouped by area, each with the roads we use and the local parking rules.

Click a town's name for its own page. Each one covers how the truck gets there from Cicero Avenue, where a car can wait for us under that town's rules, and what to tell us on the call. The steps of a pickup are the same everywhere, set out in how our free pickup works: no tow charge, and you're paid as the car is loaded.

Near the Alsip yard

The towns within a few miles of 11630 S Cicero Ave. Most are a straight run up or down Cicero Avenue, or along 127th or 147th Street.

Alsip: Alsip pickups on both sides of the Cal-Sag: loading spots, the village vehicle rules and nearby towns.
Blue Island: Blue Island bans residential street parking 2 to 6am for cars without a city sticker; we reach it along 127th Street.
Evergreen Park: Evergreen Park presumes a tarped car left unmoved for 14 days is inoperable; we collect from every block.
Markham: Markham allows no parking on the hydrant side of a street at any hour, and nearly every home has a driveway.
Midlothian: Midlothian pickups: overnight and snow parking limits, flood-prone streets and loading spots.
Oak Lawn: Oak Lawn's alternate-side snow parking starts at one inch on the ground, so curbside dead cars are worth moving early.

South suburbs

South and southeast of the yard, reached mostly by the Tri-State and then 147th Street, 159th Street, Torrence Avenue or the Calumet Expressway.

Calumet City: Calumet City borders Hammond, so we set its snow route and sticker rules beside Indiana's stricter title law.
Country Club Hills: Country Club Hills treats a dead car as inoperable after just 48 hours, and Cicero Avenue runs straight there from our yard.
Dolton: Dolton counts a car unable to run for 10 days as a nuisance; our truck reaches the village along Sibley Boulevard.
Flossmoor: No numbered highway enters Flossmoor, so pickups come in on Governors Highway and 175th Street off the Tri-State.
Harvey: Harvey police may tow a dead car off the street 72 hours after a warning sticker, so call when the sticker goes on.
Lansing: After 2 inches of snow, Lansing wants street parking on the odd or even side by 8am; our phones open at 6am.
Sauk Village: In Sauk Village a carport, tent or awning is no garage, so a dead car parked under one still counts as in public view.
South Holland: South Holland numbers streets three blocks ahead of Chicago, so 159th is 162nd, and dead cars get 7 days.

Southwest suburbs

West of the yard toward Harlem Avenue and La Grange Road, by the Tri-State or out along 159th Street.

Bridgeview: Bridgeview zoning bars keeping an unlicensed car as outdoor storage, from house driveways to mobile home lots.
Orland Park: Orland Park caps any parked vehicle at 24 hours in one spot, and its village sticker chapter was repealed in April 2026.
Summit: Covers Summit and Argo, where a dead car left on private property becomes a nuisance after just 72 hours.
Tinley Park: Tinley Park closes every street to parking from 2 to 5am; we load from driveways, condo lots, shops and the curb.

West suburbs and DuPage

North up Cicero Avenue into Cicero itself, and out by the Tri-State and then Ogden Avenue, 55th Street or 75th Street into DuPage County.

Cicero: Cicero treats a car with expired plates or no town sticker as inoperable; we explain the code and load from two-flats.
Downers Grove: In Downers Grove, 3 inches of snow in 24 hours starts a 48-hour street ban; how to sell a dead car before it hits.
Naperville: Naperville bans parking on any street or alley from 2 to 5am, so a dead car at the curb can't wait there for long.
Oak Brook: Oak Brook bans parking on every village street from 2 to 6am; we collect from driveways, condo lots and repair shops.
Westmont: Westmont rules set beside Downers Grove's, from the 2-inch snow trigger to the ban on parking a car on the grass.

Will County

The longer runs out along I-55 and I-80. Same free tow and the same payment at pickup as anywhere closer.

Bolingbrook: Bolingbrook gives a dead or unplated car 5 days outdoors before village code treats it as a nuisance.
Joliet: Joliet limits any car on a public street to 48 hours; we collect on both sides of the Des Plaines River.

Chicago

We collect across the city. The South Side neighborhoods nearest the yard are Mount Greenwood, Beverly, Morgan Park and Ashburn; the Near West Side has a page of its own because of its parking rules.

Near West Side: Most Near West Side homes are in big buildings, and Madison Street falls under Chicago's 3 to 7am winter ban.

Northwest Indiana

Across the state line as far as Gary and no further. Indiana paperwork rules differ from Illinois; they're set out below the list.

East Chicago: Harbor side or west side, in a city that lets a nonoperating car stay on private property only 24 hours.
Gary: Glen Park to Miller Beach, in a city where a snow emergency can be declared with just 1 inch down.
Hammond: The only Indiana city on the Chicago line, where a car can sit on the street 96 hours at most without a permit.
Highland: Highland stickers a junk car left in public view and can tow it after 5 days, from a driveway too.
Munster: Pickups off Ridge Road and Calumet Avenue, where 2 inches of snow clears every car off Munster streets.

Indiana towns without a page, and Indiana paperwork

Besides the five Indiana towns above, we collect in Whiting, Griffith, Merrillville, Hobart, Lake Station and New Chicago. Hammond and East Chicago are reached off the Borman Expressway (I-80/94) and the Indiana Toll Road; Munster and Highland sit just south of the Borman along Calumet Avenue and Indianapolis Boulevard (US-41).

Indiana has its own paperwork, set by state law. Whatever the car's age, a recycler needs either the title, which the BMV replaces for $15 if it's lost, or a BMV certificate of authority on State Form 55018, which costs $4 to apply for (BMV fee chart; IC 9-22-5-18). Only a car 15 or more model years old can be sold without its title, and then only with that certificate. For anything newer with neither paper, buying it would be a Level 6 felony for the buyer under IC 9-32-9-29 (SEA 65, 2024), so we can't take it. Tell us what you hold and we'll confirm the route when we talk; the full comparison with Illinois is on our no-title page.

Where pickups stop

We don't collect in Porter or LaPorte County, so Portage, Valparaiso, Chesterton, Michigan City and La Porte are outside our range. The same goes for south Lake County: Crown Point, Schererville, Dyer, St. John, Cedar Lake and Lowell.

Not listed but inside Cook, DuPage or Will County? We very likely cover it; these pages are far from every town we visit. Send the address through the quote form and we'll confirm.

Your town, your car, one form

Put the town or ZIP in the pickup address and we'll take it from there.