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People like JoeM500 don't need to worry about vehicle stickers this year, but the rest of us motorvatin' four-wheelin' city dwellers have just days to go until we're at risk of one of those $120 "You Forgot To Get Your Sticker" tickets. Did you get your reminder in the mail? Yeah, neither did we—and WBBM is reporting that we're not alone.
The City Clerk’s office says the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side and Beverly on the Southwest Side are a couple of the communities where people have been complaining they did not get their yearly application reminders to buy city stickers.There are a couple of possible causes of the problem: errors made putting the right vehicle owner info into city computers from hard-to-read written applications and delivery problems with the U.S. Postal Service.
Regardless of whether or not you got your reminder, you still gotta pay up by Tuesday. Besides at the City Clerk's office at City Hall, you can get your vehicle sticker at currency exchanges, at Dominicks, da Jewels, or online. It's still $75 for the majority of us, but they've upped the charge (surprise!) for other vehicles this year, so check here (pdf) before writing out that check.
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Huh, I live in Logan Square and my wife and I got ours.
Although the City Clerk's office should also consider another potential cause for the problem -- the Chicago Postal Service freakin' blows. We always get other people's mail -- next door neighbors, people who live at the same house number but a totally different street (and in a different zip code), and occasionally, a totally random Chicagoan's letter. It's ridiculous.
Its not just certain communities. I live in Pilsen and I did not get mine. My friend and her entire family live near Midway and in Bridgeport and no one received their notices. I blame the city. Everyone always blames the USPS, but you know what, when I mail something in the morning to whereever, lets say Netflix, it is 9 times out of ten received the next day. Unlike city personnel, most postal workers do not get their jobs because of someone they know.
I got mine, but my name was almost completely wrong [I have a four-letter last name; two of the letters were wrong] and the address was my old one [despite me telling them when I moved].
Go figure.
I didn't get the renewal form for my truck or my scooter and I live in Logan Square.
yay me.
The city not sending reminder notices is crummy; the city not informing new residents they have to get stickers is crummier. After moving to the city in August and registering my vehicle in Illinois, I didn't even find out about city stickers until I was slammed with a ticket in December. As far as I could tell, there is no official effort to inform new city residents about this requirement, since license plates are the provenance of the State. But why would they, when sticker + late fee + ticket= hundreds for the city?
I sympathize, but you didn't notice that every car in the city had a funny little sticker in the right corner of the windshield?
I forget how I knew, but I knew when I moved here that I needed to get one. Can't remember why though.
Also, I received email notices to renew my stickets this year. Screw paper.
I live in the Ukranian Village. My mom, sister, and grandma live on the south side. Not one of us received a renewal form. On top of that, the guy gave me a hard time about it when I went to get my sticker.
I asked myself that later, Navin, but I lived near the U of C at the time, where a lot of people drive in from other neighborhoods, and figured they were some sort of neighborhood permit. (Also a lot of out of state plates, etc...) On top of that, it didn't help when we asked our landlord if we needed any kind of parking permit or sticker, and he said no.
Personally I don't feel like the state or city should have to remind us about any of this crap. The reminders are nice, but unfortunately (as evidenced by these complaints) shouldn't be relied upon - even if the City gets us in that habit.