Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says without money from the controversial lease of the city's parking meters, there'd be no way to balance the 2010 budget...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago
In just less than 60 days, Chicago's parking meter rates will increase again....
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
After draining reserve funds generated by city asset sales, Mayor Daley has hitched Chicago's financial future to continuing the Great Chicago sell-of...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley will acknowledge tonight that his administration "totally screwed up" the transition to private control of the city's 36,000 parking meter...
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 ...
Graham Hill | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
While cars can give us a great feeling of freedom when we are on the open road, they are also a yoke around our neck as they stand idle and cost money for a great deal of the day.
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago
Two people protesting the installation of new parking pay boxes by LAZ Parking, were arrested this morning at around 9:30 AM in the 8900 block of sout...
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...
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...
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 07.08.2009 | Chicago
Chicago's parking meter mess could be the tipping point that awakens the sleeping giant otherwise known as the City Council....
AP | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's parking meters have become targets of vandals. The city of Chicago agreed in December to a $1.15 billion deal to privatize ...
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...
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 07.03.2009 | Chicago
To question Daley is to question his love for the city and his omniscient ability to know what is best for it. Mr. Mayor, it's not about who has the franchise on love. Chicago's a big place, and a lot of people love it just as much as you do.
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...
ChicagoNow | Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
It's been nearly a week since Chicago's "Massive Meter Meltdown" last Wednesday. Yet, the cause is still shrouded in mystery....
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago
Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan has opened an investigation into the "transaction and implementation" of Chicago's parking meter privatization ...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago