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Parking Meters Frozen, Beaten

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Dec 26, 2009 8:00PM

Not only are the city's parking meter payboxes finding themselves in a deep freeze, but they're taking a beating, too. Literally. The Chicago News Coop mentioned in yesterday's New York Times that from April to August 2009, there were 579 cases of vandalism against the payboxes.