Chicago Parking Meters

Surprise! The city's parking meter selloff continues to be the gift that keeps giving to -- or, more aptly, taking from -- Chicago taxpayers. The c...

Chicago knows from experience how partnerships can sour. Emanuel's Infrastructure Trust, if done right, could be a new model for rebuilding urban infrastructure. Done wrong, it'll be just another hand off of public assets to private control.

Though they initially hesitated the measure, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White have now come around to a proposed crackdo...

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Chicago parking meters are facing rate increases between 25 and 50 cents citywide. The rate adjustments will begin in the Lo...

Rahm Emanuel has benefited from the parking meter deal since he began campaigning for mayor last year. He knows Chicagoans hate it, so even though ...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel lashed out Tuesday against a $13.5 million bill the city received from Chicago Parking Meters LLC concerning what the compa...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected on Wednesday to introduce another new revenue stream for the city: selling advertising space on the city's park...

Nostalgic types might consider it a sad day when the last of Chicago's old fashioned single head parking meters got replaced in late spring in a desol...

Just over four years after Chicago's Department of Revenue announced its ground breaking pay-by-phone, in-car parking meter program to great fanfare,...

While it would be difficult to ignore that Chicago's parking rates leave quite a wallet dent, it turns out the city has been outpaced by several other...

Better late than never? Despite the fact that Chicago's parking meter lease is now well into its third year, a protest against the deal is planned ...

With just a few weeks before Mayor Daley's five minute grace period for expired meter violations quietly sunsets on April 1st, 32nd Ward Alderman Scot...

We as a city haven't had any opportunities in recent history to elect a mayor on the basis of principle and vision. You, the people of Chicago, can do something about that.

Under my administration, neither parents struggling for a library nor mental health advocates for continued service will have to organize civil disobedience actions to get a meeting with the mayor's office.

Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) announced Saturday afternoon that the parking enforcement stoppage due to the blizz...

While the city has not made it public, the Department of Revenue has halted all parking enforcement until this coming Monday due to the blizzard and i...

A female Traffic Management Authority employee was punched repeatedly in the face by an angry motorist after she wrote him a ticket Friday evening in ...

Could Chicago in fact get out of the parking meter deal? Possibly, though it's a long shot. But it's imperative that the next mayor at least take a run at it.

Along with our city's parking and politics, I will lead efforts to clean up the pollution responsible for thousands of asthma attacks, hundreds of ER visits, and dozens of deaths.

If Chicagoans weren't angry enough about the new $5 per hour meter rates downtown, they might be after watching one of the poor souls paying the steep...

Perhaps the biggest albatross hanging on the neck of Chicago's outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley is the controversial deal he negotiated to privatize th...

As mayor, I will instruct the city's lawyers to not fight an existing lawsuit to invalidate the meter contract, and will an bring additional suit against Chicago Parking Meters, LLC.

It's almost that time of the year again. No, not Christmas or New Year's, but parking meter rate increase season. It was three years ago this month w...