Parking at 1550 N Sedgwick St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 1500–1599 N Sedgwick St. Everything here is from City records — 98,237 parking tickets written across 143 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
When is this block cleaned?
Not published
No 2026 season is published for this section.
Do I need a permit?
Zone 348
A visitor without a day pass is a $75 ticket.
Cameras nearby?
4
1635 N LaSalle (6 min walk) · 1817 N Clark St (8 min walk)
Streets to watch near 1550 N Sedgwick St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1300 N Cleveland Ave alone took 1,010 tickets in three years, a 6 min walk away.
Street cleaning11,472 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
- 1300 N Cleveland Ave — 1,010 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 1400 N Dearborn Pkwy — 942 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 300 W Evergreen Ave — 816 tickets, 6 min walk S
Permit zones16,759 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
- 1500 N Dearborn Pkwy — 2,192 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 1500 N Orleans St — 1,127 tickets, 1 min walk SE
- 1400 N Orleans St — 968 tickets, 3 min walk S
Plate checks14,015 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
- 1400 N Sedgwick St — 1,510 tickets, 3 min walk S
- 1400 N Hudson Ave — 1,431 tickets, 3 min walk S
- 400 W Evergreen Ave — 1,179 tickets, 6 min walk S
Posted restrictions1,302 tickets
Posted time restrictions. Worth reading the sign twice — this block is enforced.
- 1800 N Lincoln Ave — 512 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 1400 N Clybourn Ave — 238 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 1800 N Wells St — 214 tickets, 7 min walk NE
Metered blocks51,670 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
- 1200 N Wells St — 7,494 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 1400 N Wells St — 5,561 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 1300 N Wells St — 5,085 tickets, 7 min walk SE
Other enforcement2,773 tickets
Enforced regularly. Read the posted signs before you park.
- 1800 N Stockton — 2,252 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 1700 N Stockton — 409 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 1400 N Ogden — 67 tickets, 8 min walk SW
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 1635 N LaSalle — speed camera, 6 min walk E
- 1817 N Clark St — speed camera, 8 min walk NE
- 750 W North Ave — red-light camera, 10 min walk W
- 1569 N Halsted St — red-light camera, 10 min walk W
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 348 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- 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.
The average ticketed Chicago driver pays $319 a year in fines and late fees. Autopilot is $99/year.
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 , section . Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.