Shut down Lincoln Towing (dba Protective Parking Corporation), Remove Robert Munyon


Shut down Lincoln Towing (dba Protective Parking Corporation), Remove Robert Munyon
The Issue
Between July 2015 and March 2016, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Police found evidence of 830 illegal property seizures from Lincoln Towing (now doing business as Protective Parking Corporation). But even after ICC voted to revoke the towing service's license, Cook County Judge Neil Cohen ruled that the commission "violated due process" in its Sept. 12, 2018 order that revoked Lincoln Towing's license, according to ABC Chicago.
Cohen reversed the commission's order, but his decision can be appealed. And I would like the ICC to do just that. Under the leadership of Robert Munyon, Lincoln Towing is as horrendous in 2024 as it was nine years ago. A casual glance at Yelp reviews and Google reviews proves just that. At 4882 North Clark Street, 205 of 218 Yelp reviews are one-star ratings. At 4601 West Armitage Avenue, 59 of 61 Yelp reviews are one-star ratings.
As a former condo board president and former condo board treasurer who was blocked by Robert Munyon to receive a parking pass to rent my own Limited Common Element space, he bold-faced lied about how the pass was "sent" and treated ICC like a joke when contacted about it. A year later, when I asked again for a pass today (Jan. 4, 2024) and gave him 48 hours to respond before contacting ICC again, his reply was, "No need to wait contact them now."
If Lincoln Towing had any amount of professionalism, their sole goal would be to protect LICENSED and LEGITIMATE owners from having unauthorized cars in their spots, not for Robert Munyon to be delusional enough to think he owns all Chicago property, including ones he neither resides on nor pays a percentage in.
In 2023, I let this play out in Small Claims Court with my condo board. But even after condo board members have quit, Robert Munyon is still taking it upon himself to block parking passes. I have filed a complaint with the Ward 49 alderwoman, Chicago's mayor, governor, lieutenant governor, two state senators, the Better Business Bureau, ICC (again), the Illinois Attorney General, and 13 Chicago newspapers and broadcasting stations.
It appears that Robert Munyon thinks ICC is a joke and I must be too. YOU THOUGHT! I'm hoping that enough people will sign this petition as was the case with the petition on February 1, 2016 to make another judge reevaluate the 2018 decision.
Although I was naive enough to hope that Lincoln Towing had improved YEARS later, it only took a matter of months before I was reminded that whether a snake is on the grass or on the sidewalk, it's still a snake. Chicagoans should not be played like we're all Robert Munyon's revenge against whatever (or whoever) made him this miserable.
Let's work to get Lincoln Towing shut down for good to stop this madness with them illegally banning parking passes, illegally towing cars and being startlingly rude to anyone who dares to ask why.

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The Issue
Between July 2015 and March 2016, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Police found evidence of 830 illegal property seizures from Lincoln Towing (now doing business as Protective Parking Corporation). But even after ICC voted to revoke the towing service's license, Cook County Judge Neil Cohen ruled that the commission "violated due process" in its Sept. 12, 2018 order that revoked Lincoln Towing's license, according to ABC Chicago.
Cohen reversed the commission's order, but his decision can be appealed. And I would like the ICC to do just that. Under the leadership of Robert Munyon, Lincoln Towing is as horrendous in 2024 as it was nine years ago. A casual glance at Yelp reviews and Google reviews proves just that. At 4882 North Clark Street, 205 of 218 Yelp reviews are one-star ratings. At 4601 West Armitage Avenue, 59 of 61 Yelp reviews are one-star ratings.
As a former condo board president and former condo board treasurer who was blocked by Robert Munyon to receive a parking pass to rent my own Limited Common Element space, he bold-faced lied about how the pass was "sent" and treated ICC like a joke when contacted about it. A year later, when I asked again for a pass today (Jan. 4, 2024) and gave him 48 hours to respond before contacting ICC again, his reply was, "No need to wait contact them now."
If Lincoln Towing had any amount of professionalism, their sole goal would be to protect LICENSED and LEGITIMATE owners from having unauthorized cars in their spots, not for Robert Munyon to be delusional enough to think he owns all Chicago property, including ones he neither resides on nor pays a percentage in.
In 2023, I let this play out in Small Claims Court with my condo board. But even after condo board members have quit, Robert Munyon is still taking it upon himself to block parking passes. I have filed a complaint with the Ward 49 alderwoman, Chicago's mayor, governor, lieutenant governor, two state senators, the Better Business Bureau, ICC (again), the Illinois Attorney General, and 13 Chicago newspapers and broadcasting stations.
It appears that Robert Munyon thinks ICC is a joke and I must be too. YOU THOUGHT! I'm hoping that enough people will sign this petition as was the case with the petition on February 1, 2016 to make another judge reevaluate the 2018 decision.
Although I was naive enough to hope that Lincoln Towing had improved YEARS later, it only took a matter of months before I was reminded that whether a snake is on the grass or on the sidewalk, it's still a snake. Chicagoans should not be played like we're all Robert Munyon's revenge against whatever (or whoever) made him this miserable.
Let's work to get Lincoln Towing shut down for good to stop this madness with them illegally banning parking passes, illegally towing cars and being startlingly rude to anyone who dares to ask why.

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Supporter Voices
Petition created on January 4, 2024