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Parking Tickets, Politics & Rahm
Victor Rowans wanted to run for alderman in the 27th ward. Unfortunately for Rowan, an unpaid $60 parking ticket got him knocked off the ballot, according to the Sun-Times Mary Mitchell. For those of...
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Trib Story Undermines City’s Speed Camera Push
City Data: 43% Juvenile Pedestrian Deaths On Side Streets “Facts are stubborn things,” one of our nation’s founders, Sam Adams famously said. A new report in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune uses statistics,...
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Political Insiders Stand To Profit From Chicago Speed Cameras
It’s coincidence. It’s just an 800 lb. gorilla of a coincidence, so of course Mayor Emanuel will tell you there’s nothing to see here. But, it turns out one of Mayor Emanuel’s biggest and longest...
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Tribune Hammers City’s Pedestrian Fatality Claims
Mayor Emanuel at press conference to announce speed camera program Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark. The Chicago Tribune has a piece today eviscerating dramatic safety claims by the city. For months...
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City Debuts Congress Parkway Streetscape Lighting
A pedestrian is bathed in purple light as they walk through the tunnel below the Chicago Stock Exchange along Congress Parkway. As a light mist fell Thursday evening outside the Harold Washington...
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Tribune Editorial Cartoonist Wins Award, Dislikes Meter Lease Deal
An example of Scott Stantis's great cartoon work. Image credit: Scott Stantis/Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis is very good at what he does. That’s probably why he was...
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City Reaches Settlement On Parking Meter Lease Deal
An old fashioned parking meter from before the meter lease deal was passed in 2008. Making lemons out of lemonade. That’s the tone Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel set when he stepped to the podium Monday...
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Opinion: Emanuel’s Parking Meter ‘Fix’ Could Make Things Worse
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces changes to the parking meter lease deal at a press conference Monday. Photo credit Ted Cox/DNA Info Chicago Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel may have done the impossible. He may...
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Parking Meter Lease Deal Remix Getting Poor Reviews
An old school parking meter from before the notorious Chicago parking meter lease came into being in 2008 adds its two cents. The early results are in, and the overwhelming consensus is that Mayor Rahm...
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Ald. Reilly Looks For Alternatives To Parking Meter Deal Remix
Ald. Brendan Reilly at City Hall. Photo credit: Ted Cox/DNA Info Chicago. 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly is fighting back against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to revamp Chicago’s infamous parking meter...
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Chicago Tribune Report Says Meter Deal Remix Benefits Company
Friday’s front page story in the Chicago Tribune states Chicago Parking Meters, LLC will continue to dramatically benefit from Mayor Emanuel’s proposed changes to the city’s infamous 2008 parking meter...
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Notes On Parking Meter Lease Remix Committee Hearings
City of Chicago CFO Lois Scott and Corporation Counsel Steve Patton testify before the City Council Finance Committee this past week. There’s already been two days worth of tense and contentious...
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Even More Notes On Parking Meter Hearings
Friday, the Finance Committee convened once again on the topic of the moment–parking meters. It was a short meeting, beginning at 10 AM and gaveled adjourned just after noon. But a litany of questions...
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Parking Meter Lease Remix Inspires Many Opinions
As Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed renegotiated and remixed version of Chicago’s infamous parking meter lease deal comes closer to a vote in the city council, many voices are weighing in with their...
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City Council Approves Parking Meter Deal Remix 39-11
Mayor Rahm Emanuel presides over Wednesday's Chicago City Council meeting. Corporation Council Steve Patton sits to his left.Back in 2008, the Chicago City Council voted 45-5 to approve the much...
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Parking Meter Firm Fast Tracks Free Sundays, Extended Hours
The changes to Chicago’s parking meter lease deal approved by the city council barely a week ago, will begin being implemented in select areas of the city starting this weekend–several weeks earlier...
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Some Business Owners Supporting Free Sunday Parking?
Over the course of hearings on the remix of the parking meter lease deal, many aldermen stated they were hearing from business owners and local chamber of commerce that opposed free Sunday parking....
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Mayor Stonewalling in Sunday Parking Deal, Some Aldermen Say
Some aldermen trying to opt out of free parking at metered spaces on Sundays under the recently renegotiated meter lease deal say they are getting the runaround from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office. During...
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Hyde Park Residents, Businesses Monitoring Free Sunday Parking
Ald. Will Burns (4th)Parking on 53rd Street in Hyde Park can be tough. 53rd is one of Hyde Park’s main drags and suffers much of the same traffic and parking congestion issues as it’s Northside...
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City Announces First Batch Of Speed Camera Locations
Technicians for American Traffic Solutions install a test camera near Warren Park on Western Avenue back in November. Drivers get ready to slow down. The first 12 speed camera locations were announced...
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