Chicago Parking Meters

Frozen Parking Meters Have Residents Fuming, City Says To Be Expected

chicagotribune.com | James Janega | Posted 12.11.2009 | Chicago

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Certainly in the minds of some frustrated motorists, frozen meters fed more resentment over the city's newly privatized meters Thursday. But city and ...

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The Real Chicago Way

Thomas Frank | Posted 12.09.2009 | Chicago

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Thomas Frank

When the entertainers of the right aren't declaring their disgust with Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending he's an exemplar of what they call "the Chicago way."

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Parking Meter Deal Balanced The Budget: Daley

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Parking Ticket Revenue Down Nearly $1 Million Per Month

Chicago Sun-Times | CAROL MARIN and DON MOSELEY | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Chicago Taps Parking Meters To Fund Homeless Shelters

Posted 11.13.2009 | Impact

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Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley announced last week that the city has earmarked $1.4 million to fund homeless prevention programs over the next two yea...

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Parking Meter Rates Set To Rise Again

Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago

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In just less than 60 days, Chicago's parking meter rates will increase again....

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Daley Dips Into Parking Meter Funds To Offer Property Tax Grants

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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After Parking Meters, Five Other Public Assets Daley Could Sell

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

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After draining reserve funds generated by city asset sales, Mayor Daley has hitched Chicago's financial future to continuing the Great Chicago sell-of...

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Daley Getting Angry At Parking Meter Company

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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New Parking Meters Are Getting Time Wrong, Costing Drivers

Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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The New McCarthyists: Fear and Smear

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Michael Likosky

New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.

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No Blacklisters Please: Decency in P3 Contracting

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Michael Likosky

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.

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Daley To Admit Parking Deal Got "Screwed Up," Spent Too Much Time On Olympics

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley will acknowledge tonight that his administration "totally screwed up" the transition to private control of the city's 36,000 parking meter...

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Alderman Gets Heated Defending Parking Meter Deal: 'It's None Of Your Damn Business' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago

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WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" assembled a panel to discuss the the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organ...

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City Downplays Parking Meter Lawsuit: 'Wholly Without Merit'

Chicago Public Radio | Alex Keefe | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago

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In a brief written statement, the city says the lawsuit over its $1.15 billion parking meter privatization is "wholly without merit."...

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Chicago Sued Over Parking Meter Privatization Deal

Huffington Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago's much-maligned parking meter lease deal is getting a fresh beating. The Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization, a ...

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City Closed, But Parking Meters And Tickets Still In Full Effect

Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.17.2009 | Chicago

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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 ...

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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 19: A New Urban Terrorist in Chicago?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago

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Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

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.

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Two Arrested At Parking Meter Protest

Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.05.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Eric Zorn: The Good Things About The Parking Meter Deal

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Half Of Contested Parking Tickets Are Dismissed

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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New Parking Meters Wreaking Havoc On Motorcycles, Scooters

Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago's new Pay & Display parking payment kiosks, have put motorcycle and scooter riders in a sticky predicament....

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City Council Holding Parking Meter Deal Hearings

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Help! I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Ducks

Dan Rosenthal | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Parking Meters, Gas Prices, Chicago City Council, Chicago Olympics, Todd Stroger, Mayor Daley, Illinois Tax Increase, Recession, Chicago News
Dan Rosenthal

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.

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City To Use Parking Meter Money To Help Plug Budget Deficit

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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