Analysis: Parking Meter Deal A Huge Disaster
Told ya so. When the Chicago parking meter lease deal was being jammed through the Chicago City Council in just over 36 hours in December, 2008 The...
Told ya so. When the Chicago parking meter lease deal was being jammed through the Chicago City Council in just over 36 hours in December, 2008 The...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Daley was accused Wednesday of mortgaging Chicago's future by draining reserves that were supposed to carry the city for decades to solve two sh...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Daley said today that he is losing confidence in the company hired to run the city's parking meters following the revelation of more problems wi...
David Orr | Posted 05.25.2011
As taxpayers, it's high time we knew more: how many tickets are issued by ward, by neighborhood, by street. We should know why they are issued and who foots the bill, and, maybe, why a city with a billion dollar TIF surplus couldn't even balance its budget.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago's parking meter mess could be the tipping point that awakens the sleeping giant otherwise known as the City Council....
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Under fire for giving quickie approval to the problem-plagued parking meter privatization that raised rates sky-high, the City Council agreed today to...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011
The City of Chicago leased its parking meters for nearly $1 billion less than they were worth and the office in charge of valuing the meters didn't ev...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
An admittedly "frustrated" Mayor Daley demanded Thursday that Chicago's embattled parking meter contractor shape up to prevent problems like the pay-a...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Two of Mayor Daley's former top aides -- and a security company once co-owned by the brother of Ald. Danny Solis (25th) -- are poised to make some ser...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Daley acknowledged Tuesday what Chicago alderman and motorists have known for months: City Hall botched the privatization of Chicago's 36,000 pa...
The Expired Meter | Posted 05.07.2012