Parking at 1850 N Wells St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 1800–1899 N Wells St. Everything here is from City records — 71,472 parking tickets written across 116 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 43, section 7. 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 1850 N Wells St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1500 N Cleveland Ave alone took 686 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 1500 N Cleveland Ave — 686 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 1600 N North Park Ave — 650 tickets, 4 min walk SW
- 200 W Eugenie St — 460 tickets, 4 min walk SW
- 1500 N Dearborn Pkwy — 2,192 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 1500 N Orleans St — 1,127 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 1400 N Orleans St — 968 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 1900 N Lincoln Ave — 774 tickets, 3 min walk NW
- 1500 N Sedgwick St — 741 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 1500 N La Salle St — 575 tickets, 6 min walk S
- 2000 N Stockton Dr — 1,007 tickets, 5 min walk N
- 1500 N State Pkwy — 967 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 1900 N Stockton Dr — 952 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 1400 N Wells St — 5,561 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 1600 N Wells St — 4,676 tickets, 4 min walk S
- 1500 N Wells St — 4,328 tickets, 7 min walk S
- 1800 N Stockton — 2,252 tickets, 2 min walk E
- 1700 N Stockton — 409 tickets, 4 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 1817 N Clark St — speed camera, 1 min walk NE
- 1635 N LaSalle — speed camera, 5 min walk SE
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 142 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 2 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 43, section 7. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.