Thousands in Danger of Getting the Boot

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Apr 22, 2009 8:20PM

If you've got unpaid parking tickets, you'd better get to paying them off because the city is leveling the boot on motorists. Now that the limit for booting is two tickets more than one year old, the city is going all out in a bid to reclaim some cash with a $300 million budget hole looming. Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh gave the Sun-Times the lowdown: 415 boots already applied and more than 65,000 seizure notices mailed out. If you receive a seizure notice, you have 21 days to request a hearing or, yep, you get the boot. Acknowledging the economic clusterfuck that's hit everyone, the City is urging people on the list to consider payment plans or at least paying one of the tickets.