Chicago parking by block · Lower West Side · Ward 25

Parking at 1250 W 21st St

Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 1200–1299 W 21st St. Everything here is from City records — 80,085 parking tickets written across 108 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.

When is this block cleaned?
Thursday, October 29
9am–2pm. A missed one is $60.
Do I need a permit?
Zone 1540
A visitor without a day pass is a $75 ticket.
Cameras nearby?
1
1477 W. Cermak Rd (6 min walk)

Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block

Ward 25, section 8. The restriction runs 9am–2pm on each of these; a missed one is $60 and it doubles if it goes unpaid.

Apr
21
Tue
Apr
22
Wed
May
21
Thu
May
22
Fri
Jun
24
Wed
Jun
25
Thu
Jul
27
Mon
Jul
28
Tue
Aug
26
Wed
Aug
27
Thu
Sep
28
Mon
Sep
29
Tue
Oct
29
Thu
Oct
30
Fri

Streets to watch near 1250 W 21st St

street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1000 W 18th St alone took 1,339 tickets in three years, a 8 min walk away.

Street cleaning3,750 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
Permit zones18,324 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
Plate checks14,788 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
Posted restrictions2,462 tickets
Loading zone enforcement. Not a spot to leave a private car.
Metered blocks40,269 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
Other enforcement373 tickets
Enforced regularly. Read the posted signs before you park.

Cameras within a 10-minute walk

  • 1477 W. Cermak Rd — speed camera, 6 min walk SW

Get warned before it happens

Everything on this page is a deadline or a line on a map. Autopilot America watches both for you — it knows where you parked, and it tells you before the ticket exists.

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Street cleaning on this blockFree
A text the night before every cleaning day here — the next is Thursday, October 29. Free, no account needed →
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Parking restrictions where you leave the car
The app spots where you parked and checks it: temporary no-parking, permit zones, snow routes, meter time limits. This block is permit zone 1540, so a guest on the wrong side of that line is a $75 ticket.
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Cameras you’re about to drive past
It says them out loud before you reach one — there are 1 within a short walk of here.
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Your city sticker and plates, on time
Both are deadlines, not driving mistakes. We remind you before each one lapses, with a direct link to renew, so the $200 sticker ticket doesn't catch you out.
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Late fees, handled
A Chicago ticket doubles 25 days after it’s issued. We pay the ones you owe before that clock runs out — and if a ticket doubles on our watch during your paid year, you get the year back.
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The tickets you still get, contested
By mail, where 59% of contested tickets are dismissed, with the City’s own evidence pulled under FOIA.
The average ticketed Chicago driver pays $319 a year in fines and late fees. Autopilot is $10/month or $99/year.
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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 25, section 8. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.