Contesting Chicago Parking Tickets

Plenty of Chicagoans contest their parking tickets by mailing a letter of protest to the Department of Revenue. Others go so far as to demand a hearin...

Motorists who park illegally on Chicago streets would get more than tickets on their windshields, if an influential alderman has her way. They'd ge...

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...

It seems Chicago's Department of Revenue has had so much success using photographic evidence when giving tickets, it's expanding the program.

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.

Recent changes and cutbacks are having a profound effect on drivers' ability to contest parking tickets and red light camera violations.

Aldermen are politicians. Politicians need votes to stay in office. Groups of pissed off and motivated people represent votes. Numbers are power. Organize.

This is the type of crap ticket that makes my blood boil.

My suggestion is to use my strategy of ALWAYS parking at broken meters if at all possible.

If the city tickets a non-resident for not having a city sticker, you have a moral duty to NOT pay that ticket.

If parking ticket scofflaws could get arrested for not paying their tickets, I would probably be on the most wanted list.

Is this fine about police safety? Or is it really about increasing revenue for a city that is desperate for any revenue?

I am currently writing a post called "Welcome to Chicago-A Beginners Guide To Driving In Chicago," that gives newcomers to our city the lowdown. My original title was "Violated! What To Do To Keep Chicago From Sticking It In Your A**."

Another crap ticket courtesy of the city of Chicago. If a cop wrote this ticket, they were being lazy and should have looked up where your plates were registered. Instead they took the easy way out and wrote the ticket.

The reason this violation sucks so much is there is no objective way to measure tint. Do the cops carry a tint meter around with them to check to see if the glass is tinted or not? I'm sure they don't.

The key advice to everyone is this: Make sure you never have more than two unpaid tickets in Final Determination. Once you get that that third ticket, pay it right away so you don't go into Seizure Status and have to pay all your tickets.

The sad truth is that technically, all the city has to do is post one sign, a single, solitary sign, to signify the particular parking restriction for the entire block.