Scrap car pickup in McKinley Park

Scrap cars in McKinley Park

McKinley Park is bounded by the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) on the north, the South Branch of the Chicago River, known here as Bubbly Creek, on the east, Pershing Road on the south and the CSX tracks on the west. Archer Avenue cuts through it on the diagonal, and 35th Street, Ashland, Damen and Western carry the rest of the traffic.

The homes are mostly single-family houses and two-flats, according to the local McKinley Park News. Wherever your scrap car sits, in a back garage, a side yard or out front, Smart Scrap Metal Buyers buys it as it is: not running, wrecked or just done.

Around the park

The neighbourhood takes its name from McKinley Park, dedicated in 1902, at 2210 W. Pershing Road. The park fills the block between Archer Avenue and 37th Street on the north, Pershing on the south, Damen on the east and Western Boulevard on the west. If your car is near the park, “which side of the park” is the most useful thing to tell us.

The CTA Orange Line’s 35th/Archer station, at 3528 S. Leavitt, is the other handy reference point.

Pershing Road and the old factory district

Along Pershing Road, on McKinley Park’s southern edge, brick buildings of the Central Manufacturing District run from about Wood Street almost to Western Avenue. The district began in 1905 and is often described as the first planned industrial district in the United States.

Older names still turn up in conversation, too; parts of the area were once called “Ducktown” and “Mt. Pleasant.”

Getting it done

Send the year, make, model and title status, and we’ll call with an offer. The tow costs nothing, and payment changes hands at pickup. After the tow, the car goes into scrap car recycling: drained, stripped, crushed and shredded so the metal can be melted again.

West along Archer, scrap car pickup in Archer Heights covers the next corridor over.