Dumpster Rental in Rogers Park
Courtyard apartment buildings and six-flats at high density, and the part of the city where a block most often has no usable alley at all.
(619) 658-9555Far North Side · 60626The part of the city most likely to have no alley
Rogers Park is dense, built early, and built in a pattern that did not always include a service alley. More blocks here lack a usable alley than anywhere else we work, and on the lakefront side that is the normal condition rather than the exception.
Where there is no alley, there is no back way in. The rear of the building is a courtyard, a garden, a parking area belonging to somebody else, or another building. So the container goes on the street, with a permit, and that permit is ours to hold under the city code rather than yours to chase.
The practical consequence is that we need to know about the street before we can say anything useful. Parking density here is high, the blocks are narrow, and a container in the curb lane is taking spaces that are already fought over. Tell us the cross streets early.
Six-flats, courtyard buildings and shared everything
The building stock is apartment buildings rather than houses — six-flats, courtyard blocks, and larger brick buildings from the 1920s, with some later infill. Almost nobody we speak to here has private outdoor ground attached to their unit.
That shapes the job in the same way Hyde Park's courtyard buildings do, with one addition: here the density means the building is usually rental rather than owner-occupied, so the decision-maker is a management company and the work is frequently a unit turnover rather than an owner's project.
Turnover work has a predictable shape and it is one of the easier things we size. Carpet, abandoned furniture, mattresses, bagged rubbish, sometimes a kitchen refresh. It is bulky and light, which means volume is the limit rather than weight — the opposite of most Chicago work. A 15 yard covers a unit comfortably; a 20 if several are turning at once.
If you manage several buildings here and turn units in batches, tell us the weeks rather than ringing per unit. We will plan the run, which on a street placement also means one permit period rather than several.
The lake, the winter and the streets in between
Two things make winter work here harder than in most of the city, and they compound each other.
The first is that street placement is the default, and street placement is exactly what winter restrictions affect. Several of the through streets carry posted overnight restrictions from 1 December to 1 April, running 3am to 7am regardless of whether it has snowed, and the separate two-inch rule can activate on main streets at any time. A container in a curb lane on a posted route is in the way of the operation those rules exist to protect.
The second is the lake. Rogers Park gets weather off the water that the rest of the city does not, and the blocks closest in get it worst — more snow, more ice, and streets that stay difficult longer. A placement that works in October is a different proposition in January.
So the advice here is simply to plan further ahead than you would elsewhere. Tell us the street in November rather than the week before Christmas, and where there is any private ground at all — a parking pad, a rear lot — it is worth far more in winter than its size suggests. More on winter placement →
Where the container goes in Rogers Park
In Rogers Park it is usually the street, with a permit. More blocks here lack a usable alley than anywhere else we work, so street placement is standard. The permit is ours. Parking density is high, which argues for a short, planned placement rather than leaving a container out for weeks. More on permits and placement →
What we deliver to Rogers Park
Winter & snow routes
Overnight parking bans, two-inch routes and January alleys.
December to April the overnight ban runs on arterials whether or not it has snowed.
Read more →
Container sizes
10 to 30 yard containers, and which ones fit a Chicago alley.
A 30 yard is a different city permit class and will not fit most alleys.
Read more →Alleys & permits
Where a container can legally sit, and who has to hold the permit.
In Chicago the dumpster permit is the hauler's, not the property owner's.
Read more →What people in Rogers Park ask us
Does my block have an alley?
Quite possibly not. More blocks lack a usable alley here than anywhere else we work, and on the lakefront side that is the normal condition. Street placement with a permit is the standard answer, and the permit is ours.
I manage several buildings and turn units in batches.
Tell us the weeks rather than ringing per unit. We will plan the run, and on a street placement that also means one permit period instead of several.
What size for a unit turnover?
A 15 yard. Turnover material — carpet, abandoned furniture, mattresses, bagged rubbish — is bulky and light, so volume is the limit rather than weight. That is the opposite of most Chicago work.
Why is winter harder here than elsewhere?
Two reasons that compound. Street placement is the default here and street placement is exactly what the posted winter restrictions affect, and the lake gives you weather the rest of the city does not get. Plan further ahead than you would inland.
Other neighborhoods we cover
Container delivery in Rogers Park
Tell us the cross streets, what is coming out and where it should sit. Size, placement and the permit answer in one call.
(619) 658-9555Serving Rogers Park · 60626