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In just less than 60 days, Chicago's parking meter rates will increase again....
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Chicago homeowners squeezed by rising property tax bills could be in line for cash grants of up to $200 thanks to $35 million worth of property tax re...
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 09.15.2009 | 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...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.15.2009 | 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...
Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.
Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.
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...
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 ...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago
Parking tickets will continue to be issued and city boot vans will still be busy booting eligible vehicles Monday, despite the entire City of Chicago ...
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
The Parking Ticket Geek tells about a growing parking meter revolt on the South Side and warns that a meter vigilante may be lurking in the shadows, plus the best place to watch Blagojevich's continued breakdown.
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 Sun-Times | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago
Only 10 percent of the approximately 2.8 million parking tickets issued each year in Chicago are contested. But of those contested, over half are dism...
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...
Dan Rosenthal | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
Our esteemed legislators in Springfield are getting their ducks in a row this week and when they're done, we'll be in for a nibbling like we never imagined.
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 07.08.2009 | Chicago
Chicago's parking meter mess could be the tipping point that awakens the sleeping giant otherwise known as the City Council....
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Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago