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Chicago Parking Meters

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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How The Chicago Parking Meter Lease Deal Went Down

Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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The Parking Ticket Geek Gets Arrested ... Almost

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

I knew in my gut I was right. There was no ordinance in the Chicago municipal code that made it illegal to feed someone else's parking meter. It was just a big fat urban myth. Right?

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Parking Ticket Relief: City Halting Meter Firm's Ticket Writing After 'Unacceptable' Performance

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Has The Parking Meter Revolt Begun?

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

As teams canvas the city changing meters to their new, much higher rates, another movement seems to be blossoming in reaction to these changes.

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'Meter Beater' Arrested For Weekend Parking Meter Assault

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

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.

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Meter Rate Changes Behind Schedule

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

Confusion seems to be high, and it's not limited to drivers. One reader reported being ticketed for an expired meter though it still had the Monday-Saturday decals on its head.

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Chicago's New Parking Meter Reality: What You Need To Know

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

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.

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Parking Meter Deal Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Ouch

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

After a meter is changed under this new deal, they must be fed 365 days a year. No Sundays off. No parking meter holidays.

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Parking Meter Lease Deal Still Not Finalized

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

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.

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City Phasing Out Coin Parking Meters

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 02.12.2009 | Chicago

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The quadrupling of fees this year to park at most meters in Chicago marks only the beginning of changes coming to a curbside near your car. [...] You ...

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Why I Hate the Chicago Parking Meter Lease Deal

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

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.

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Holiday Gift Ideas For The Parking Scofflaw

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.23.2009 | Chicago

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The Parking Ticket Geek

With Christmas just a few days away, the Parking Ticket Geek has holiday gift ideas for that parking ticket challenged person in your life.

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Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 6: Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $34 Gazillion?

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago

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Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

This week we're talking about the great Goose Island Sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors, Brian Urlacher's baby momma drama and selling Chicago's parking meters (thanks a ton, Mayor Daley).

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Parking Meter Vote: Aldermen Given Copies Of Ordinance Just Minutes Before Vote

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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City Parking Officially Privatized: Aldermen Approve Meter Deal

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.04.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago aldermen "afraid" to increase parking meter rates for the last 20 years on Thursday gave a private contractor carte blanche to raise them sky-...

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Parking Meters To Be Fed Sundays And Holidays Under Privatization Plan

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Will Higher Meter Costs Hurt Businesses?

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

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So drivers in Chicago are looking at a 400 percent increase -- from 25 cents an hour to $1 an hour -- at most parking meters in the city starting next...

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Parking Meter Rates To Quadruple

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

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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 ...

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City Privatizing Parking Meters

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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