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Parking Meter Rates Change Starting January 2nd
Chicago Retains Title For America’s Highest Meter Rates While officially, Chicago’s increased parking meter rates kicked in at midnight New Year’s Day, meter rates will begin changing on Tuesday,...
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Mayor Denies Back Room Negotiations On Meter Lease Deal
Mayor Emanuel answers questions about parking meter rates at a press conference Wednesday morning. Photo courtesy and copyright DNA Info Chicago/Ted Cox What’s the deal with the delays in raising...
View ArticleCBS 2 Covers Delay In Parking Meter Rate Increase
It seems other news gathering organizations in Chicago also think it’s odd the city’s parking meters won’t be going up until February, a story originally broken here at The Expired Meter.
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Parking Meter Company A ‘Parasitic Business’?
Parasites. That’s what NBC 5′s Ward Room columnist, Edward McClelland, calls Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, the company which controls the city’s 30,000 metered parking spaces. In a recent column,...
View ArticleNBC 5 Discovers Parking Meter Company Rakes In A Lot Of Dough
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. NBC 5 investigates Chicago’s parking meter lease deal. They discover, to the shock of everyone, that Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, the company which won a 75...
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Meter Deal Remix A Slam Dunk For Approval Wednesday
A sign protesting high parking meter prices hangs outside a home in West Lakeview back in 2009.It should be no surprise to anyone following the progress of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s parking meter lease...
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Free Sunday Parking At City Meters Starts This Weekend
For the first time in more than four years, Chicago drivers will be able to park for free at most city parking meters on Sundays beginning this weekend. Before 2009, except for a few small areas of the...
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NYT Says Chicago Meter System ‘One Of World’s Best’
An old school parking meter from before the notorious Chicago parking meter lease came into being in 2008 adds its two cents. Uh…what?!? A writer on a New York Times blog claims “Today, the Chicago...
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