Logan Square is the home neighborhood for Waley — the 2419 N. Milwaukee Avenue yard sits a six-minute drive from the traffic circle at Logan Boulevard and Kedzie. The corridor reads Polish and Latino in equal measure across the 2700-block, the boulevards run wide and grassy with the brick greystones set back deeper than anywhere else on the North Side, and Milwaukee Avenue from Diversey to Fullerton is the truck’s morning commute. There’s no neighborhood Marcus Waley has driven more.
Greystone Center Stairs and the Boulevard Setback
Logan Square greystones are deep, the front lawn is wide, and the center stair is the workhorse on every two-flat and three-flat load. Waley runs corner pads on the wrought-iron porch railings, masonite on the entry tile, and stair runners up the full flight before the first piece of furniture leaves the unit. The boulevard setback adds twenty feet of front-yard walk that gets factored into the binding flat figure before Marcus signs it — no late add-on for the longer carry, because Eddy in estimating already counted it.
Milwaukee Avenue Mornings and the Lease-Day Yard
The corner of Milwaukee, Kimball and Logan Boulevard is the Logan Square choke point on May 1 and October 1, and Waley dispatches against it directly out of the yard. Trucks pull onto the 2700-block before dawn, the cones are on the curb the night before, and the COI is already with the property manager. The Waley Polish-Latino crew chiefs grew up walking these blocks; Tony Pawlak ran a Bucktown-Logan handcart route for eight years before joining the Waley payroll in 2015. Waley is fully licensed and insured, with coverage on file with the state on every load.
What's Covered
- Milwaukee Avenue yard six minutes from the Logan Square traffic circle — no relay yard, no interlined carrier
- Corner pads on the wrought-iron porch railings of the boulevard greystones
- Boulevard setback walk counted into the binding flat figure up-front, not added on the back end
- May 1 and October 1 Chicago Lease Day slot held against the Milwaukee-Kimball-Logan choke point
- Bilingual estimator (Eddy Ramirez, EN/ES) for the Latino 2700-block households along Fullerton and Diversey
- Predawn cone drop on the 2700-block curb so the truck isn’t fighting a parked car at six in the morning
A Logan Square Move Booked Out of Milwaukee Avenue on a Illinois-Signed Waley Flat
The Waley start rate sits at $185 an hour for two uniformed movers and the 26-ft straight truck. Whatever rate is published on this page is the rate Trish writes into the contract — the only invoice change comes from hours actually worked, not from a rate adjustment on the truck.
Days ahead of the truck pulling into Logan Square, Tony has the curb cut walked, the freight-elevator window booked at the Wicker Park mill loft, the storm-window timing noted, the salt-line floor matting staged, and the center-stair turn-in measured.
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