Parking at 250 W Locust St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 200–299 W Locust St. Everything here is from City records — 319,314 parking tickets written across 162 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 27, section 10. 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 250 W Locust St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 100 W Oak St alone took 563 tickets in three years, a 3 min walk away.
- 100 W Oak St — 563 tickets, 3 min walk NE
- 300 W Goethe St — 274 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 500 W Erie St — 2,797 tickets, 10 min walk SW
- 0 E Bellevue Pl — 2,196 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 200 W Goethe St — 901 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 800 N Hudson Ave — 1,087 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 900 N Hudson Ave — 715 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 200 W Hill St — 609 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 1100 N State St — 10,380 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 600 N Wells St — 6,549 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 1000 N Rush St — 6,179 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 0 E Oak St — 9,421 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 0 W Erie St — 9,384 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 0 E Walton St — 8,137 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 400 W Chicago Ave — 1,952 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 100 W Chicago Avenue — 904 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 800 N Cambridge — 365 tickets, 7 min walk W
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 901 N Clark St — speed camera, 4 min walk E
- 105 W Chicago Ave — red-light camera, 5 min walk SE
- 98 W Chicago Ave — red-light camera, 5 min walk SE
- 19 E Chicago Ave — speed camera, 7 min walk SE
- 14 W Chicago Ave — speed camera, 7 min walk SE
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 5 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 27, section 10. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.