Parking at 1250 S Ruble
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 1200–1299 S Ruble. Everything here is from City records — 68,687 parking tickets written across 97 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 28, section 1. The restriction runs 9am–2pm on each of these; a missed one is $60 and it doubles if it goes unpaid.
Streets to watch near 1250 S Ruble
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1400 S Halsted St alone took 556 tickets in three years, a 5 min walk away.
- 1400 S Halsted St — 556 tickets, 5 min walk SW
- 1000 W 14th Pl — 445 tickets, 10 min walk W
- 1000 W Roosevelt Rd — 285 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 700 W 17th St — 989 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 1400 S Emerald Ave — 461 tickets, 6 min walk S
- 1500 S Peoria St — 379 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 1700 S Desplaines St — 414 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 1400 S Morgan St — 392 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 1300 S Morgan St — 374 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 700 W Maxwell — 588 tickets, 3 min walk SW
- 800 W Taylor — 54 tickets, 7 min walk NW
- 900 S Morgan St — 52 tickets, 9 min walk NW
- 1100 S Canal St — 17,618 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 500 W Roosevelt Road — 6,301 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 1200 S Clinton St — 4,938 tickets, 4 min walk E
- 700 W Polk — 2,111 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 700 W Taylor — 163 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 1100 S Morgan — 98 tickets, 8 min walk W
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 732 W Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 3 min walk NW
- 809 W Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 4 min walk NW
- 1215 S Canal St — red-light camera, 5 min walk E
- 644 Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 6 min walk NE
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 4 cameras nearby.
- Your city sticker and plates bought on time — a missed sticker is $200.
- The tickets you still get contested by mail, where 59% are dismissed.
Ticket counts are parking citations issued 2023–2025 from City of Chicago records obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140), placed to the 100-block. Speed and red-light citations are counted separately. Street-cleaning dates are the City’s published 2026 season for ward 28, section 1. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.