you just flew through a drop zone at 500 feet after you were specifically told to divert around or hold 3 miles clear.
No-one gets told to divert around or hold 3 miles clear at Elwood.
It is Class G airspace up to and including 2500, and even radio and transponder are not mandatory. If you weren't aware of this, that is a problem.
And you seem to have missed the point
UnderneathTheRadar was making -