Roseland’s pieces, from Princeton Park to Fernwood
Roseland is really a cluster of smaller neighborhoods. Fernwood lies along its western edge between 99th and 103rd Streets. Princeton Park fills the northwest corner between 91st and 95th, built from 1944 as single-family homes and classic bungalows, and it now takes in what’s left of Lilydale: about a dozen blocks of brick houses that Black contractors Matthew Goodwin and “Duke” Hodges began building in 1942. Rosemoor, Sheldon Heights, West Roseland and the southern part of West Chesterfield round out the community.
On the east, the Metra Electric main line marks the border with Pullman. The Dan Ryan Expressway took the place of State Street along Princeton Park’s eastern side. Most of Roseland uses the 60628 ZIP, with smaller corners in 60620 and 60619, so don’t worry if your mail says one of those.
The run up from S Yale Ave
From our base at 11616 S Yale Ave, a truck heads up Wentworth Avenue, turns east on 111th Street and goes north on State Street. That’s about two miles to the middle of Roseland. Addresses up near 95th take a little longer than the blocks just over 115th, but none of it is far.
Pickup details on Roseland blocks
Dutch settlers called this ground “de Hooge Prairie”, the High Prairie, because it sat higher and drier than their older settlement to the south. It stayed farmland until the town of Pullman went up next door, then filled with homes, shops and industry. For a pickup, that history means variety: a bungalow block in Princeton Park and a car parked by the old Pullman Freight Car Works on 103rd Street are different jobs for a driver.
The useful questions are practical ones. Is the car at the curb, in a garage, or on a gravel pad by the back fence? Does it roll, or are the tires flat? Is it boxed in by another vehicle? Answering those on the call means the right truck shows up and the job takes minutes.
Stores on Michigan Avenue once served the entire South Side, and it’s still a main street. If the car is stalled on Michigan or on 111th, tell us which side of the street it’s on and roughly where, so the driver can pull in without blocking a lane.
103rd Street and the overnight ban
One Roseland street is on the city’s Winter Overnight Parking Ban list: 103rd Street, which is covered from Torrence Avenue all the way west to Kedzie. From December 1 to April 1, nobody may park on it between 3 am and 7 am, whether it snows or not, and the signs stay up all year.
A car that quit on 103rd in late November becomes a problem fast. The city’s own figures are at least $150 for the tow, a $60 ticket and $25 for every day in storage, and ban tows go to Pound 2 at 10301 S. Doty Ave. or to Pound 6 on North Sacramento. Selling the junk car before December avoids all of that. Our guide on a dead car and the winter parking ban goes through the timing.
Wrecked, stripped or just worn out
A car that was in a crash last week and one that has sat in a Roseland garage for years are both fine. We buy wrecked cars whatever the damage, and keys aren’t required. The free towing is part of every pickup, not an extra.
If the title is missing, tell us what you’ve kept, such as a bill of sale, a registration or an insurance card. Illinois rules decide which papers work for a scrap sale, and we confirm that on the phone before anyone drives out.
Roseland landmarks a driver can steer by
The 95th/Dan Ryan station, the terminal of the CTA Red Line, is in Roseland, and the main campus of Chicago State University sits at 95th Street and King Drive in the northeast part of the community. Along the Pullman side, Metra Electric stations at 95th, 103rd, 107th, 111th and 115th Streets make good reference points.
Schools work too. Fenger High School, Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and Harlan Community Academy High School are all in Roseland, as is Roseland Christian School.
Roseland’s neighbours
South across 115th Street is West Pullman, where our trucks are based. East, over the Metra Electric tracks, is Pullman, the company town whose skilled tradesmen often settled in Roseland. To the west, Fernwood once stretched across to Halsted Street, into what is now Washington Heights.
To get started, see how pickup works or send us the car’s details for an offer.