Tornado Recovery: U-Haul Extends Help to Chicagoland Storm Victims
July 16 2024 - 8:31PM
Business Wire
58 stores across the Chicago metro area and northern Indiana
will offer a month of free storage services on new rentals
U-Haul® is offering 30 days of free self-storage and U-Box®
container usage to residents affected by the powerful storms and
tornadoes that devastated Chicagoland and northwest Indiana.
The National Weather Service stated seven tornadoes touched down
across Chicago metro, Sugar Grove, Oswego, Manhattan and Joliet on
Monday night. Countless homes were damaged or destroyed. Power
lines were taken down by the intense storms.
Access to dry and secure self-storage lockers and portable
storage containers is essential for communities during the recovery
process.
Rick Rottweiler, U-Haul Area District Vice President of the
Chicagoland area, has made 58 facilities in Illinois and northern
Indiana available to extend the U-Haul disaster relief program with
a month of free storage services.
“Many families were impacted by the severe weather that came
through the Chicagoland area and northwest Indiana,” Rottweiler
said. “We are a longstanding part of these communities and want to
help. U-Haul would like to extend a hand to all those that could
use it during this time.”
The 30-day free disaster relief program applies to new
self-storage and U-Box rentals and is based on availability. U-Box
containers can be delivered and picked up at no additional cost as
part of the offer.
People seeking more information or needing to arrange storage
services should call the U-Haul office nearest them or stop by any
U-Haul-owned and -operated center in the cities listed below:
U-Haul Co. of Central Chicago
(708) 377-5169
Store locations: Arlington Heights, Broadview, Bellwood, Cicero,
Chicago (3), Des Plaines, Forest Park, Melrose Park, Rolling
Meadows
U-Haul Co. of Chicago South & Southwest Suburbs
(708) 389-2331
Store locations: Alsip, Chicago (8), Oak Lawn, Romeoville
U-Haul Co. of Chicago Western Suburbs
(630) 405-7455
Store locations: Aurora (2), Bolingbrook, Elgin, Hanover Park
(2), Hoffman Estates, Montgomery, Naperville, Streamwood
U-Haul Co. of North Shore Chicago
(773) 862-3040
Store locations: Chicago (7), Evanston, Morton Grove, Niles
U-Haul of North Indiana & South Cook County
(219) 332-2905
Store locations: Calumet City, Elkhart, Glenwood, Hammond,
Markham (2), Merrillville, Mishawaka (3), Park Forest, Schererville
(2), South Bend
The U-Haul Companies of Eastern Iowa and Western Iowa have
extended the disaster relief offer at six stores after the same
weather system rolled through Iowa and western Illinois before
reaching Chicago. Find that announcement here:
https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/Storm-Recovery-U-Haul-Offers-30-Days-Free-Storage-To-Iowa-Storm-Victims-31970/.
In addition to its 30 days free self-storage disaster relief
program, U-Haul is proud to be at the forefront of aiding
communities in times of need as an official American Red Cross
Disaster Responder.
About U-HAUL
Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself
movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states
and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for
customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime
through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones
with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage
has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 188,700 trucks, 139,400
trailers and 43,700 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest
self-storage operator in North America with 1,004,000 rentable
units and 86.8 million square feet of self-storage space at
Company-owned and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer
of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent
trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the
U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.
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