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Chicago Parking Meters

City Leased The Streets Along With Its Parking Meters: Study

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Active Transportation Alliance, Chicago Parking Meters, Chicago Parking Meter Deal, Chicago Right of Way, Urban Planning, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, Active Transportation Alliance Parking Meter Report, Scott Waguespack, David Hoffman, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Margo O'Hara, Chicago News

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...

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Parking Meter Protesters March On Alderman's Office

ChicagoNow | Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Parking Meters, Centro Comunitario Juan Diego, Alderman John Pope, Chicago Parking Meter Deal, Parking Meter Protest, Chicago News

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...

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Chicago's Parking Meter Deal a Prescription For Trouble

David Orr | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago

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David Orr

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.

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Scorned Parking Meter Company Hires College Kids To Tamper Driver Outrage

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN AND CAROL MARIN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago's beleagured parking meter contractor has enlisted reinforcements in the battle for the hearts and minds of angry motorists....

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Parking Meter Debacle Stirring Complacent City Council

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.08.2009 | Chicago

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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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50 North Side Parking Meters Vandalized: Police

AP | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago

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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 ...

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City Council Clashes Over Parking Meter Deal, Passes Privatization Review

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

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Under fire for giving quickie approval to the problem-plagued parking meter privatization that raised rates sky-high, the City Council agreed today to...

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Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 12: Parking Torture

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Parking Meters, Keeping Score in Chicago, Mancow, Mick Dumke, Mancow Waterboarding, Chicago Podcasts, Chicago News
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Fook and Konkol strike back with an interview with Chicago's own radio terrorist, Mancow Muller, who discusses his controversial waterboarding and take on the parking meters from hell.

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Parking Meter Company Hires Ex-Governor As Controversy Over Deal Heats Up

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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How Chicago's Parking Meter Deal Matters in Springfield

Marcel Pacatte | Posted 07.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago City Council, Chicago Inspector General, Paul Volpe, Mayor Daley, Chicago Parking Meters, Illinois Reform Commission, David Hoffman, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago News
Marcel Pacatte

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.

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Inspector General Rips Parking Meter Deal In Report: City Could Have Gotten Nearly $1 Billion More

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 07.03.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Parking Meter Breakdown Still Unexplained, Hacker Conspiracy Floated

ChicagoNow | Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago

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It's been nearly a week since Chicago's "Massive Meter Meltdown" last Wednesday. Yet, the cause is still shrouded in mystery....

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Attorney General Lisa Madigan Opens Investigation Into Chicago Parking Meter Deal

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago

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Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan has opened an investigation into the "transaction and implementation" of Chicago's parking meter privatization ...

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Frustrated Daley Blames Computer Glitch For Parking Meter Problems

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago

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An admittedly "frustrated" Mayor Daley demanded Thursday that Chicago's embattled parking meter contractor shape up to prevent problems like the pay-a...

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New Downtown Parking Meters Breakdown, Tickets Temporarily Suspended

Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago

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In the latest technological snafu to plague Chicago's troubled parking meter system, many of the newly-installed pay-and-display boxes in the downtown...

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Parking Meter Deal Could Be Windfall For City Hall Insiders

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.21.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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City Council Rips Parking Meter Company: 'You Took The Money Of At Least 5,800 Chicagoans'

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago

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Five months after privatizing Chicago parking meters with only five dissenting votes, the City Council took the contractor to the woodshed today amid ...

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LA Considering Following Chicago's Lead On Parking Meters

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Privatization, Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago Parking Meters, Los Angeles Parking Meters, Antonio Villaraigosa, Chicago News

While at least some members of Los Angeles's City Council look at Chicago's parking meter mess and see . . . a mess, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa looks ...

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Parking Meter Lessee Has 'Substantially Improved': City

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

The city claims there were only 150 meters reported as broken or otherwise inoperable-- less than 1% of all meters.

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CTA Employees Park For Free?

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

The reason is a time-honored tradition in Chicago called professional courtesy. Many Parking Enforcement Aides will not ticket another city employee's vehicle.

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Alderman Tunney's Aide Suspended For Forged Parking Permit

Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago

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The alderman's aide who parked at an expired parking meter using a fake "official business" placard in his windshield has been suspended....

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The Expired Meter Helps Protect Drivers Against Broken Meters

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

This flier reminds ticket writers of what the municipal code says about parking at a non-working meter.

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Chicago Parking Meter Firm Admits Problems, Asks For More Patience

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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The Parking Meter Revolt Rolls On

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

It seemed that the parking meter vandalism had ceased. Then again, perhaps not.

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Chicago: The Privatized City of the Future

Michael Moreci | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago

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Michael Moreci

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.

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