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 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...
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 02.09.2009 | Chicago
Just a few weeks ago, the fate of Global Parking Management had been sealed. The private booting firm was going to be given the boot from the 32nd Ward. But emotions seem to have cooled.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago
Chicago sports fans, movie mavens, concertgoers and theater patrons will pay more to attend live events--and so will those who park their cars in gara...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago
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**."
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago
As much as I think it's OK to get pissed and outraged at parking tickets, booting, the crappy system surrounding both, and Mayor Daley, it can never be acceptable to lash out at city workers in any way--verbally, physically, or ballistically.
Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago
Taunts, kicks and the occasional flash of a deadly weapon -- city workers slapping the dreaded Denver boot on cars face fury daily from parking ticket...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE According to police, the revenue worker was shot in the lower back around 10:40 a.m. Monday and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
The solution to Daley's budget deficit is not to make up the shortfall on the backs of motorists. Instead, he needs to do what every other person in these troubled economic times is doing and that's tighten the city's belt and cut expenses.
Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE Aldermen delayed a vote Monday on Mayor Daley's plan to boot the cars of drivers with just two unpaid tickets, rather than the current minimu...
The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 09.27.2008 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago