Winter Parking Ban Restrictions Are Now In Effect

By Chuck Sudo in News on Dec 1, 2011 2:30PM

December in Chicago means winter parking bans went into effect at 3 a.m. How many of you had to travel to 103rd and Doty to get your car out of impound? That far south you're talking about Chicago as the Last Frontier.

The ban will affect 107 miles of vital arterial streets from 3-7 a.m., through April 1, regardless of snowfall. Here's a handy map for the overnight parking ban (PDF). And the City doesn't care about whether or not there's no snow on the ground. They will tow and, given Mayor Emanuel's budget is heavy with fee increases, they'll be towing a lot.

There's also the separate ban on parking where the snowfall is over two inches deep, which affects another 500 miles of streets. This ban, once we get those dreaded two inches, no matter the time of day or date. Here's the map for the streets affected by the two-inch parking ban (PDF).