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Private Property

Private property towing. Done by the book.

Managing a parking lot in Illinois is not like managing one anywhere else. In Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will and Winnebago counties a tow from private property is a relocation under the Illinois Commercial Relocation of Trespassing Vehicles Law, 625 ILCS 5/18a, and it may only be performed by a commercial vehicle relocator licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission. We are not that licensee, and we do not pretend to be. What we do is connect property managers, HOAs, retail landlords and apartment complexes with relocators who hold that licence and follow the law, so the enforcement is clean: no unlawful tows, no liability headaches, no customer-facing surprises.

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Quick Tow Chicago truck working a permit-parking apartment complex lot in a Chicago suburb at dusk

What's included in private property towing?

  • Work only with relocators licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission under 625 ILCS 5/18a
  • Written parking management agreement
  • Permit / guest-pass enforcement programs
  • Fire-lane and ADA space enforcement
  • Round-the-clock drive-through patrol by the operator (negotiable hours)
  • Repeat-offender database and escalation
  • Owner notice and release process handled
  • Guidance on the process if a vehicle ends up at a city pound or a village impound after a police-ordered tow

When do you need private property towing?

  • Apartment parking is chronically abused by guests
  • HOA needs enforcement without board liability
  • Retail customers lose parking to overflow from a nearby event
  • Fire lane, ADA, or reserved spaces violated
  • Derelict or abandoned vehicles accumulating
  • Parking rules in lease but no way to enforce
  • You need a written property-management agreement for insurance

What do drivers ask about private property towing?

Is private property towing legal in Illinois?

Yes, when it is done right, and Illinois is unusually specific about what right means. Under 625 ILCS 5/18a a private-property tow is a relocation, performed only by a commercial vehicle relocator licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will and Winnebago counties. The property has to post a sign at least 24 inches high by 36 inches wide, mounted at least 4 feet but less than 8 feet off the ground, illuminated or painted with reflective paint or both, naming the relocator and stating the towing charge. Removing a vehicle from a property without those signs is unlawful. The relocator has to notify local police within one hour of the removal, cannot take the vehicle more than 10 air miles from where it was parked, or 15 from an unincorporated area, and cannot charge above the rates the Commission sets.

Do you work with HOAs?

Yes. HOAs are the most common private-property client. The operator audits the existing signage, updates the parking rules with the board, and sets a patrol schedule that fits the community. Board members do not make the call, the operator does, per the agreed rules. That keeps the board out of personal liability.

Can I call to tow a specific car in my lot?

If there is a signed property management agreement, yes. The property manager (or a designated contact) calls dispatch, confirms the vehicle and the violation, and we respond. Without an agreement on file, we cannot legally tow from a property we do not patrol.

What if a resident forgets their permit and gets towed?

They pay the release fee at the operator's lot and get the car back, with full paperwork. It is rare, because an operator only tows after the wait time and the sign check. If a resident calls in a good-faith mistake (permit in glove box, etc.), the release is handled professionally and the situation documented. Property managers can also preauthorize per-vehicle exceptions.

What if my car was towed by the city or the village, not from a private lot?

That is a completely different process. A City of Chicago tow goes to one of four city pounds, all open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the fees are published under Municipal Code 9-92-080: $250 to tow a vehicle under 8,000 pounds, $350 at 8,000 pounds or more, and $50 or $100 per day storage on the same split. Call 311 to find out which pound has it, because the city also relocates vehicles rather than impounding them. In a suburb the tow goes to that village's own impound with its own administrative fee, which is not the Chicago schedule. Once your car is released, call us for the onward tow.

Service area

Where do we offer Private Property in the Chicago IL metro?

We provide private property in every city and community across the Chicago metro. Pick your city for local details and service specifics.

Chicago City Sides Private Property in The Loop & Near North This is the one place in the metro where a missing car is as likely to have been relocated as impounded, and the Central Auto Pound sits at 500 E Wacker Dr, Lower Level, right in the middle of it.
Chicago City Sides Private Property in North Side Lakefront Lakeview and Lincoln Park hold roughly 171,000 residents between them in mostly permit-zone street parking, which makes this a lockout, jump-start and residential-tow side rather than a heavy-recovery one.
Chicago City Sides Private Property in Northwest Side Belmont Cragin is 78 percent Hispanic and Hermosa nearly 85 percent, and the Kennedy runs diagonally through the whole side with the arterial overnight ban posted along Milwaukee, Irving Park and Cicero.
Chicago City Sides Private Property in Southwest Side Nine community areas here run between 59 and 89 percent Hispanic, which is why Spanish on this site is a first-class page and not a translation afterthought, and the Stevenson and Midway sit on top of them.
Chicago City Sides Private Property in South Side Auto Pound #2 at 103rd and Doty Avenue is physically on this side and runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which makes getting a car out of that specific pound a real local question rather than a generic one.
North & Northwest Suburbs Private Property in Evanston Northwestern's campus sits on the lake in a city that runs strict residential permit parking and its own municipal impound, so a tow here is a village matter, not a Chicago pound matter.
North & Northwest Suburbs Private Property in Des Plaines Two tollways cross this city, O'Hare is immediately south, and Rivers Casino runs around the clock, so the demand here does not stop at business hours.
North & Northwest Suburbs Private Property in Schaumburg Woodfield Mall plus the office and hotel lots around it make Schaumburg the biggest private-property towing market in the northwest suburbs, and every one of those tows is governed by the Illinois relocation law.
North & Northwest Suburbs Private Property in Elk Grove Village One of the largest contiguous industrial parks in North America sits against O'Hare here, which is why this is a heavy-duty page: box trucks, tractor units and delivery fleets, not sedans.
West Suburbs Private Property in Oak Park Oak Park runs some of the strictest overnight street-parking enforcement in the metro, so the dominant local tow story here is the village impound rather than a private-lot relocation.
West Suburbs Private Property in Cicero More than 89 percent of Cicero is Hispanic, the highest share of any municipality in Illinois, and dense blocks with almost no off-street parking keep residential tow and relocation friction constant.
West Suburbs Private Property in Naperville The wealthiest large market on this map, on the Reagan Tollway, with the Route 59 retail corridor supplying the lot volume and newer vehicles driving flatbed-only requests.
West Suburbs Private Property in Aurora The second-largest city in Illinois and 41.5 percent Hispanic, with a working BNSF rail yard and a cargo airport on top of I-88, which makes it the second real home for Spanish content on this site.
South & Southwest Suburbs Private Property in Oak Lawn Advocate Christ Medical Center is one of the largest hospitals and a Level I trauma center in Illinois, which means crash-damaged vehicles arrive in Oak Lawn even when the crash happened somewhere else.
South & Southwest Suburbs Private Property in Tinley Park The Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre puts about 28,000 people into lots on a summer night, which is the most predictable towing-demand event anywhere in the south suburbs.
Will County Corridor Private Property in Joliet I-80 and I-55 cross at the largest inland port in North America, which makes Joliet the heavy-duty capital of this service area and a third of the city Hispanic on top of it.
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