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 06.21.2009 | Chicago
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 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 | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago
LAZ Parking, a company that does business in 16 states and brings in more than $200 million annually, was poorly prepared to take over Chicago's parki...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago
It seemed that the parking meter vandalism had ceased. Then again, perhaps not.
Michael Moreci | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
This is the dream of business-minded elected officials: Boatloads of cash come in and none goes out. As Chicago sells off more and more, they'll be required to do less and less.
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago
No one in Chicago has been happy about the recent hike in parking meter rates, but by last week the frustration had become outrage, and the outrage ha...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago
A private contractor that paid $1.15 billion to lease Chicago's 36,000 parking meters agreed Tuesday to delay price hikes in some areas and stop writi...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago
As teams canvas the city changing meters to their new, much higher rates, another movement seems to be blossoming in reaction to these changes.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago
Perhaps he couldn't take it anymore. The quadrupled rates, having to the feed the meters until 9 every night, seven days a week, no free Sundays anymore, and the increased enforcement--maybe it was all too much for him.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
All of Chicago's parking meters are now officially under the control of Chicago Parking Meter LLC for the next 75 years. What does that mean for people driving and parking on the streets of Chicago? Here's the lowdown.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago
After a meter is changed under this new deal, they must be fed 365 days a year. No Sundays off. No parking meter holidays.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago
It doesn't seem a stretch to think that it will not be until late March or even April before all the meter rates have been changed.
David Hoyt | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago
What could be a long-term revenue generator for a city in budgetary crisis has been traded for a one-time fix in operating revenue.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
While most members of the city council were dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back for not raising taxes, the truth is that they did.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago
Fed up with snow-covered side streets and ice-packed intersections, an influential alderman demanded Thursday that Mayor Daley set aside $1 million ap...
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago
Wednesday's meeting of the City Council's Committee on Finance had a single item on the agenda: consideration of an ordinance that would give a privat...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley's $1.15 billion plan to privatize Chicago's 36,000 parking meters -- and sharply increase the rates motorists pay to feed them -- got ligh...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
These rate increases will most profoundly affect the people who can least afford them--the poor and lower middle class.
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago
Rates for most city parking meters will increase to $1 an hour in the coming months as a result of Mayor Richard Daley's deal to lease the spots for ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago
It looks like Mayor Daley's giant budget gamble has paid off -- and then some. On Monday, the city received what a top mayoral aide described as a "w...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago