Chicago Driving

State's Cheap Road Choices Costs Drivers

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago

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As regularly as the same streets undergo the same repairs year after year, drivers cannot be blamed for assuming that the policy in Illinois is aimed ...

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Downtown Parking To Cost More: City Mulling Congestion Fee

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago

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Motorists who insist on parking in downtown Chicago -- either on the street or in commercial lots or garages -- would pay a "congestion reduction" fee...

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Stop The Boot! Sign The Petition!

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago

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The solution to Daley's budget deficit is not to make up the shortfall on the backs of motorists. Instead, he needs to do what every other person in these troubled economic times is doing and that's tighten the city's belt and cut expenses.

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Ask The Parking Ticket Geek

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.27.2008 | Chicago

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The key advice to everyone is this: Make sure you never have more than two unpaid tickets in Final Determination. Once you get that that third ticket, pay it right away so you don't go into Seizure Status and have to pay all your tickets.