Revenue collected for parking ticket fines was off on average nearly $1 million a month between May and August 2009, compared with the same time in 20...
CBS 2 | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago
You won't be paying any new taxes, but you also won't get to enjoy Venetian night and other long-running city events anymore either, as Mayor Richard ...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
When it comes to a parking in a metered space, the difference of a minute could mean getting a $50 ticket for an expired meter if you are just one min...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley today said he's not surprised by his all-time low approval rating in a new Tribune poll, saying he believes it is a result of publ...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
Calling all real journalists, amateur journalists, arm chair detectives, political insiders, conspiracy theorists and the like. This faux journalist ...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" assembled a panel to discuss the the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organ...
Chicago Public Radio | Alex Keefe | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
In a brief written statement, the city says the lawsuit over its $1.15 billion parking meter privatization is "wholly without merit."...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago
Chicago's much-maligned parking meter lease deal is getting a fresh beating. The Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization, a ...
Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
Yes, I know there is much to dislike about the parking-meter deal in Chicago -- the city arguably didn't get its money's worth, prices have quadrupled...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Chicago's new Pay & Display parking payment kiosks, have put motorcycle and scooter riders in a sticky predicament....
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
Aldermen who rushed to approve Mayor Richard Daley's controversial lease of the city's parking meter system today will hold a hearing to examine the d...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago
The Daley administration will have to further dip into proceeds from the city's much-maligned parking meter lease to cover a budget shortfall that cou...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago
The deal to lease Chicago's parking meters to a private company has crippled the City's ability to make comprehensive transportation planning, a new r...
ChicagoNow | Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
Over 100 people, many wearing T-shirts the same bright orange color of a Chicago parking ticket, showed up to voice their frustrations with the parkin...
David Orr | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
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 AND CAROL MARIN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
Chicago's beleagured parking meter contractor has enlisted reinforcements in the battle for the hearts and minds of angry motorists....
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago
Under fire for giving quickie approval to the problem-plagued parking meter privatization that raised rates sky-high, the City Council agreed today to...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson said today that he and four other lawyers from the law firm of Winston & Strawn were hired this week by Morgan Stanl...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 07.03.2009 | Chicago
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 07.02.2009 | Chicago
Burned by the problem-plagued privatization of Chicago's 36,000 parking meters, aldermen moved Monday to slow down and shine the light on future asset...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley acknowledged Tuesday what Chicago alderman and motorists have known for months: City Hall botched the privatization of Chicago's 36,000 pa...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
Five months after privatizing Chicago parking meters with only five dissenting votes, the City Council took the contractor to the woodshed today amid ...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
The city claims there were only 150 meters reported as broken or otherwise inoperable-- less than 1% of all meters.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
Three aldermen are calling on Mayor Richard Daley's administration to provide more information about the privatization of city assets such as the park...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago
This flier reminds ticket writers of what the municipal code says about parking at a non-working meter.
Chicago Sun-Times | CAROL MARIN and DON MOSELEY | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago