About us
Who are we?
Cash For Junk Cars Chicago Smart Tow Inc is the junk car buyer behind junkcars-chicago.com and the Google Business Profile of the same name. We buy junk, wrecked and scrap vehicles in Chicago, its Cook, DuPage and Will County suburbs and Northwest Indiana up to Gary, tow them free and pay the seller at pickup.
What we do, and what we don't
We do
- Junk, wrecked and scrap cars, trucks, vans and SUVs, running or not
- Free towing, with nothing taken off the offer for it
- Payment at pickup: cash, Zelle, Cash App or another digital payment
- Offers that don't expire
- Several cars on one visit
- Pickups from repair shops and apartment or HOA lots, once you've arranged access
We don't
- Good running used cars bought to resell
- Prices quoted before we know the car
- A street address to drive to: we come to the car
- Pickups outside Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana
From the first call to the curb
It starts with the car's year, make and model and whether there's a title, sent through the quote form or over the phone. We call back, talk through the condition and where it's parked, and give you a number. That number doesn't expire.
When you're ready, you pick a time. Plenty of pickups happen the same day. At the curb you hand over the papers and keys, you're paid, and the car is loaded and towed. There's no towing bill, before or after.
Where we work
We buy cars in Chicago and the Cook, DuPage and Will County suburbs, Joliet and Aurora included, plus Northwest Indiana as far as Gary. Every town with its own page, and the counties we don't cover, are listed on where we pick up.
Check us before you call
The fastest way to judge a junk car buyer is to read what earlier sellers wrote. Our reviews sit on our Google Business Profile, and you can find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Yelp too.
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How our guides are written
The junk car guides on this site are written from the sources each one cites: Illinois and Indiana statutes, IRS publications and published repair-cost estimates. Where the law decides something, the guide links the law instead of guessing at it, and anything about your own car's paperwork gets confirmed on the call. The byline on every guide is the business itself, because that's who stands behind it.
The fine print is short: the terms of use explain how quote requests and pickups work on our side, and the privacy page lists what the site and the form collect.
Something else you want to ask? Get in touch, or go back to our home page.