Loln Towing Service

This place is evil from the pit of hell. They towed me 2x in past year both in church parking lot. They are swift — they wait for unsuspecting people and move in fast and furious. They are mob owned. This is a multi million $ operation. They have no boundaries because someone is backing them. People of God need to pray that God dismantles this place and as does it as quickly as they tow peoples cars.

STAY AWAY FROM THESE GUYS AND CHINATOWN!!!
I surprised my wife for our one year anniversary by taking her to Chicago so we can celebrate and do some shopping. Everything was going so well until we made our journey home.
We walked inside Walgreen’s to get some snacks before we made our 5 hour trip back to Michigan. About 20 minutes later, we walk out and my truck is gone! Unbelievable.
I pay a cab driver $ 25 to take us to their dump and pay Lincoln Towing the $ 218,50 to get my car out. I opened up my car door and realize that they went through my belongings and they took the cash i had in my duffel bag.
I felt as if someone just punched me in the stomach. I still do as i write this two days later.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE AWARE AND STAY AWAY!

I was towed from a Walgreens only lot. I went into Walgreens & my cousins went into Portillo’s to grab us drinks and hit the bathroom before leaving the city on way to O’Hare. The tow truck must have been around the corner. Within 15 minutes of parking, we met up at my car as it was being towed. Picked up my car at a skanky brick hole in the wall to a rude bipolar jerk. He knew we were on our way to the airport and no sense of urgency to finalize transaction. The driver must have a way to get into cars as my phone charger was stolen. I wish there was regulations on shady businesses like this.

If I could give this place 0 stars I would because thats how the service is represented. They have definitely robbed my family from 200 dollars. The service is horrible avoid doing any type of business with this place by all means necessary. It is better if you go to a different towing company for all your towing needs.

Horrible customer service. While trying to get the car back the guys in the little booth were watching tv and smoking weed while me and my kid were standing freezing outside waiting for them to process my card. Place is a dump and people working there are just horrible. Avoid at all costs if possible.

This company added two large towing signs to my private property without authorization. They just bolted signs to my fence. Watch out for this company — they will hang their towing signs everywhere without permission. when I called and asked them to remove them, they were extremely rude and refused to remove them. They said «someone must have requested them…»

The only place you will find the rates at Lincoln Towing. It’s under a tiny window with a rusty gate welded on. These crooks take my scooter from the parking lot of the scooter store I left it. It was meant to be stored for the winter. There were no signs outside to warn people of towing. Lincoln Tow’s site has no information on costs. They pose as a vehicle relocation service for hire. These outrageous rates in the pic added up to $ 530 to get my 49.5 CC Scooter out of car jail. Mind you, the city would have only charged $ 150 for the tow & $ 20 a day after that, but these pure extortionists charge $ 350 to steel my scooter and the audacity of charging me $ 45 a day, with no ceiling.
Being a private business they are not held to the same limits on fees that the city is. So they have become legitimate road pirates. And have also become one of the biggest towing businesses in Chicago.
Not to mention, after 15 days they reserve the right to auction your vehicle for 100% profit. This racket is 100% legal. I called the police to check. The best thing I could was submit a customer complaint to the cities attorney general, and leave poor reviews online. Unless I wanted to sue the scooter store. But I don’t want to of that, they do good work.
Lincoln Towing represents the true nature of capitalism. Not, capitalism at it’s worst, but capitalism at it’s best. From what I experienced today, it’s just not good enough for a modern society.

Like previous reviewer Brian B, today my boyfriend and I were victims of Lincoln’s predatory towing practices outside CB2. Clearly they have a spotter and a tow truck lying in wait at the parking lot because 10 – 15 minutes after we left our car it was gone.
We don’t have any evidence that anyone from Lincoln broke into our car, but I will say the interior smelled different to both of us as we drove out of the towing yard.

God AWFUL company. They towed my legally parked car from in front of Hard Rock Café. I called the number given to me. I was told my car was at their Clark St location. WRONG!!! After paying for two cab fees to get to the right location they refused to lower the tow fee. The taxi service said this company hires scouts to scan for out of state vehicles for them to tow. I would really like to confront the scouts and find out how much they are getting paid & kick their **ses so I can get my $ 198 dollars back, the tow fee they charged me to get my car back.

Agree with all of the other reviewers… the company is absolutely evil. I parked my car at CB2 on North Ave, went into CB2 to shop around, came back out and the car was gone. They said I went to the Apple Store across the street…$ 198 later I had my car back.
They also somehow managed to get inside my car, which is presumably breaking and entering. The chubby woman behind the glass said she doesn’t know how they get in the car but it’s legal in Illinois. I’m trying to determine if that’s true.

Illegally towed my car twice. Once from my own home and the other from work.
Rude customer service too. Manager hasn’t returned my calls or emails from 6 months ago.

Horrible company. Should not be in business. The woman working here is absolutely rude and possesses the worst customer service I have ever dealt with and should definitely be fired. I could never imagine talking to any person like she talked to me. Most ridiculous situation I have had to deal with and the lady is even admitting it was her that made a mistake but somehow I and still paying for the tow even though I pay for my parking spot each month. Is this a joke? Do not trust these crooks.

Absolutely terrible. GOD AWFUL. Never do business with these criminals.
This company likes to tow vehicles that are parked completely legally. After filing multiple complaints with the BBB and Illinois Commerce Commission (working with an investigator there) AND placing multiple phone calls to the owner, I am continuing to fight to get my $ 200 back. This is a long, drawn-​out ridiculous process but I will not stop until I have my money back. I am absolutely outraged every time I think about my incident and know that so many other Chicago citizens are falling victim to this BS towing company.
THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN TRYING TO DEAL WITH THESE INCOMPETENT MORONS and I will continue to be a pain in their ass until all of my money is fully reimbursed or until I die, whichever comes first. (At this speed, it will be the latter, and then I will haunt them from the grave).

I have never experienced a situation with these scammers, but from all the reviews I have read and heard, LINCOLN TOWING is a place that needs to be shut down immediately.
The public has the power, and we should avoid any business that is in contract with these devils. Towing is necessary when people are parked ILLEGALLY.
However, stealing legally parked cars and having a lookout on every lot is just simple SHADY, MALICIOUS & CRIMINAL.
This City of chicago is corrupted to the core, and we the people should avoid any business that is in contract with evil LTS

Definitely a sleezy place. I had my car towed by this company 3 years ago, I thought it must have been a mistake by them, because I knew I parked legally. I filed a complaint with the police using the yellow slip and Chicago lost my parking slip several times. When they finally said they could process it, they claimed it was too late to do anything. After seeing these reviews, I’m confident that I was just another victim…
Classic case of corruption. You can’t even do anything about it. Install a GPS tracker in your car? Good luck! Just don’t park in any lots… Or just get lucky, you’ll get screwed by them eventually.

This place is running criminal scams. They lie in wait for people who park accidentally or for a short time in posted, but empty lots. The company violates both state statutes and city ordinances in the operation of its business If there was a category for negative stars that would be the rating. Complaints have been filed with the state and city on behalf of our clients and we are preparing a class action lawsuit to address the issue.

Shady business, even shadier company:

There should be a no star category. I got towed from the foundry after going from jamba juice to platos closet. They r thieves. Dont park at the foundry, they pay people to be lookouts.

There are not enough obscenities in the English language for me to describe how I feel about Lincoln Towing.
Worth noting:
They tell you it’s 170 bucks to get your car back. After spending more money on a cab or walking the shitty route to their shady looking lot, you are told it is $ 198.50. No explanation given for the hike in price that happened in just under fifteen minutes. That’s a whole lotta cash to fork over for parking your car in a Walgreen’s for 5 minutes and going into the currency exchange that APPEARS to share the parking lot.
F*** y’all. That’s really how I feel.

I can’t say enough bad things about this establishment. I also wish I could give negative stars. Do not sign a contract to allow this firm on your property or you and your customers will be sorry.
This firm twice towed my vehicle from *my own* parking spot outside my apartment. On the first occasion the vehicle was new (2 hours old, 7 odometer miles) and didn’t yet have the «proper» LTS sticker (this was because the apartment manager was not available immediately after I bought my car. I still wanted to park in the spot that I paid for… silly me.)
The vehicle did not yet have the LTS sticker, but it did have my name and address displayed on a temporary license plate,(the same name and address that rented the parking spot and listed the current date as the date of sale!) To make matters worse my new car was also damaged in towing with several scratches and a transmission which was disconnected.
I filed a damage report and a complaint with the ICC. I was never compensated for damages to my vehicle. I also investigated small claims court. (FYI, Small claims court is only effective if you are willing to put up with multiple days off of work… the defendant and their team of attorneys can ask for repeated continuances and also escalate it to a real courtroom where you will need a real attorney).
To make matters even more incredible, In front of me in line at LTS was a Cook County Sheriff… she was there arguing to get her (unmarked) police car out of the impound!
They were towing police cars too!
I saw this car in the lot also. Even though it was unmarked, the multiple radios and antennas made it obvious it was not a civilian vehicle… but the law apparently permitted them to tow *unmarked* police cars… as if they didn’t know.
A few months later my same vehicle was towed again from outside same apartment. This time the vehicle did have the proper LTS sticker given to me by the apartment manager. When the vehicle was retrieved by my landlord (after a very nasty phone call threatening lawsuit) the LTS parking sticker had either fallen off the window onto the dashboard or been torn off. .it was still fully affixed when I parked the car. It was same supposed story for a neighboring vehicle in the same lot.
The LTS claim was that our stickers, still easily visible from outside the car, were not «properly affixed.» Since the sticker on my vehicle was laying on the dash a few inches from where it was previously affixed, and my car had been using that spot for many months, A monkey with a brain tumor could easily have determined that the car
belonged there!
When my lease expired at this location, I moved. I lost a towing fee, and more than $ 250 in car repairs. My landlord lost several unnecessary towing fees (for the subsequent «not properly affixed» incident) and lost me as a tenant.
My best advice is to stay far far away from this place.