Illustrator Fill in Paths that Cross

Question

I have created paths in Illustrator. I have one path, see image, that crosses itself. It produces this white box inside. How do I fill it with the same black. Everything I tried seems to be rather a stupid workaround, like just putting a box behind it. This path has also a stroke that is important in other parts of the image. What to do?

Edit: These are my points and that Non Zero Winding Order button did remove the box once I made it bigger. Can I somehow remove the stroke showing up here? I need the stroke for other parts of the image, but not here.

Answer 1

With object in question selected. Open Window → Attributes. Choose show all form the hamburger menu of this window (if its not showing all*). And click on the Non Zero Winding Order button, it looks ike what you want, the other button (even odd winding rule) looks like what you have now. Done.

* Protip: Make all panels show all at all times, you might discover something useful eventually.