Two-flat basements, alley rules, and five big campuses that all move out at once — here's what we've written about getting rid of stuff in Chicago, with more guides on the way.
The three-part test — your building, your timing, your ward — and when the alley couch becomes a fine.
Yes — for buildings with black carts. How 311 requests work and who's left out.
Six routes ranked — the free 311 option, the alley folklore, and the flat $126 no-stairs version.
The item the alley refuses and donation declines — every real route, $82–$114 flat.
Five real options — including the free 311 route half the city qualifies for.
$241–$732 by the truck, back stairs and freight elevators included — May 1 / Oct 1 ready.
The 311 route, the fridge door-removal law, the scrappers — and the doors-stay-on flat pickup.
The fall lease flip's junk playbook — book against the walkthrough, not the move.
The Illinois landfill ban means no legal curb exists — the four real routes, TVs $62–$73.
Chicago's hundred-year storage unit — the moisture clock, the flood-rescue rule, the flat-price fix.
The first snow locks the decision — car inside by November or the scraper till March.
Real numbers, stairs included — and the price-drift levers flat pricing kills.
The permit reality: where would the box even go? The honest math, alley politics included.
Why Chicago estates run three houses deep, and the flat per-truck pricing that doesn't care.
Volume prices as volume: flat per-truck, family-paced, no alley announcements.
May 1 & Oct 1 blocks, per-unit photos, and paperwork built for deposit-ordinance stakes.
Flat by unit size — and the apartment-overflow rent math nobody runs.
The upfront-priced field — photo vs catalog, and the back-staircase assumption.
Chicago buyers always open the basement — the listing-prep sequence for sellers and agents.
The April inventory, ward cleanup events and their limits, the alley-safe purge.
The vetting checklist, including why the $80 deal ends fly-dumped in an alley with your mail in it.
Rehab debris arrives in phases, not all at once — what each wave weighs, which rate applies, and why the heavy wave must never meet the light one.
Five streams, the scrapper economy's real role, and the honest landfill paragraph.
No cheap day exists — what timing actually controls, lease flips and icy stairs included.
The adoption table, the legality overlay, and the 48-hour rule for when to stop waiting.
Including the line item nobody prices: parking a box truck while you load it solo.
Split the job first: movers for moving, flat junk pricing for hauling.
The full flat-rate list — by item and by truckload — and what moves the number.
UChicago, DePaul, Loyola, Northwestern, UIC — the move-out weeks, handled flat-priced.