Free Sunday Parking At City Meters Starts This Weekend

Free Sunday Parking At City Meters Starts This Weekend
UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: A parking meter payment machine stands in the central business district of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Chicago Parking Meters LLC, majority-owned by Morgan Stanley infrastructure investment funds, paid $1.15 billion for a 75-year lease to run Chicago's 36,000 parking meters, $974 million less than the city would have received if it kept the meters and raised prices. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has pledged that city residents won't pay anything for staging the 2016 Summer Olympics, which organizers say will cost $4.8 billion. Daley may not have the taxpayer support to lease or sell more assets to bolster the municipal budget. (Photo by Frank Polich/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: A parking meter payment machine stands in the central business district of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. Chicago Parking Meters LLC, majority-owned by Morgan Stanley infrastructure investment funds, paid $1.15 billion for a 75-year lease to run Chicago's 36,000 parking meters, $974 million less than the city would have received if it kept the meters and raised prices. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has pledged that city residents won't pay anything for staging the 2016 Summer Olympics, which organizers say will cost $4.8 billion. Daley may not have the taxpayer support to lease or sell more assets to bolster the municipal budget. (Photo by Frank Polich/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

For the first time in more than four years, Chicago drivers will be able to park for free at most city parking meters on Sundays beginning this weekend.

Before 2009, except for a few small areas of the city, Chicago drivers never had to feed a parking meter on Sundays. But that perk vanished with all other parking meter holidays when the city, under former Mayor Richard M. Daley, leased the city’s metered parking spaces for 75 years and $1.16 billion dollars in December of 2008.

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