Chicago Parking Rates

Parking Meter Deal Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Ouch

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.15.2009 | Chicago


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.

New Year, New Taxes

Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago


The pocketbooks of Chicago residents, workers and visitors won't be gobbled up by a big, single tax bite at the start of the year, but they could be n...

Downtown Parking To Cost More: City Mulling Congestion Fee

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 01.19.2009 | Chicago


Motorists who insist on parking in downtown Chicago -- either on the street or in commercial lots or garages -- would pay a "congestion reduction" fee...

Parking Meters To Be Fed Sundays And Holidays Under Privatization Plan

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...

Parking Meter Deal Proves Daley Hates Drivers

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago


The Parking Ticket Geek

These rate increases will most profoundly affect the people who can least afford them--the poor and lower middle class.

Parking Meter Rates To Quadruple

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 ...