City Clerk Miguel del Valle has asked state Attorney General Lisa Madigan to investigate the city's ballyhooed parking meter lease deal, believing that because Morgan Stanley employees didn't register with the city as lobbyists, the deal violates Chicago's ethics ordinance. more ›

The parking meter lease will definitely be part of any discussion of Mayor Daley's legacy. And here's yet another reason why. more ›

This week, we're counting down the top 9 stories of 2009 according to the Chicagoist staff. more ›

Remember a few weeks ago when there were conflicting media reports pertaining to the numbers the City's Department of Revenue was throwing out in regards to higher revenues from parking tickets? In October, the Dept. cited a jump in revenue to the tune of $7 million from January to August of 2009 over the same time period in 2008. But some claimed that revenue jump was due to the parking ticket amnesty program during the first quarter of '09 that encouraged people to pay outstanding tickets with no fear of additional penalties. more ›

The "Parking Ticket Geek" announced on his now-ChicagoNow-located Expired Meter site that there's a "Stop the Meters" protest set for tomorrow from 10:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the South Chicago neighborhood. Alderman John Pope will be facing off against angered constitutents who are trying to ensure that no more parking meters go into their neighborhood, already stretched by the bad economy. more ›

A couple of weeks after Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke published a story estimating that the city was grossly underpaid in the parking meter privatization deal, City Inspector General David Hoffman has released his own report on the lease with LAZ Parking and he agrees -- he estimates that the city should have been paid over $2 billion dollars instead of the $1.15 billion it received. more ›