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...
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
There's a new "parking ticket" controversy heating up in Chicago....
Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 11.15.2009 | 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...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
Calling all real journalists, amateur journalists, arm chair detectives, political insiders, conspiracy theorists and the like. This faux journalist ...
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.
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
Scrounging for cash to erase a threatened $300 million year-end shortfall, Chicago is going after motorists with two unpaid tickets older than one yea...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
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...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
The reason is a time-honored tradition in Chicago called professional courtesy. Many Parking Enforcement Aides will not ticket another city employee's vehicle.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago
This flier reminds ticket writers of what the municipal code says about parking at a non-working meter.
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago
Chicago is lowering the boom on motorists with two unpaid parking tickets older than one year after lowering the threshold for applying the Denver boo...
Michael Moreci | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
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.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
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?
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago
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...
Associated Press | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago officials say the city raked in $7 million and wiped 135,000 unpaid parking and red-light tickets off the books during a 10-we...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
It seems Chicago's Department of Revenue has had so much success using photographic evidence when giving tickets, it's expanding the program.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.22.2009 | Chicago
Unless you don't contest the ticket, or try to contest your ticket sans clothing, drooling and convulsing in front of the hearing officer, it should be impossible to lose this one.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
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.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.16.2009 | Chicago
The lines are out the door. Drivers who have waited to the last minute to take advantage of Chicago's Parking Ticket Amnesty program are facing ver...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago
Recent changes and cutbacks are having a profound effect on drivers' ability to contest parking tickets and red light camera violations.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago
Aldermen are politicians. Politicians need votes to stay in office. Groups of pissed off and motivated people represent votes. Numbers are power. Organize.
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.23.2009 | Chicago
With Christmas just a few days away, the Parking Ticket Geek has holiday gift ideas for that parking ticket challenged person in your life.
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...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
These rate increases will most profoundly affect the people who can least afford them--the poor and lower middle class.
Chicago Sun-Times | CAROL MARIN and DON MOSELEY | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago