Parking at 1850 W 45th St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 1800–1899 W 45th St. Everything here is from City records — 37,456 parking tickets written across 81 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 15, section 2. 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 W 45th St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 4700 S Damen Ave alone took 559 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
- 4700 S Damen Ave — 559 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 4800 S Wood St — 553 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 4700 S Wolcott Ave — 550 tickets, 7 min walk S
- 4400 S Honore St — 460 tickets, 1 min walk NE
- 4700 S Seeley Ave — 457 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 4600 S Honore St — 340 tickets, 4 min walk S
- 4800 S Honore St — 389 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 4300 S Wolcott Ave — 263 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 1600 W 48th St — 137 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 1700 W 48th St — 344 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 1700 W 44th St — 343 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 1800 W 48th St — 329 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 4700 S Ashland Ave — 3,570 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 4700 S Paulina St — 2,412 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 4600 S Ashland Ave — 2,220 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 4800 S Damen Ave — 685 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 1900 W 46th St — 155 tickets, 3 min walk SW
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 812 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- 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 15, section 2. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.