Parking at 3450 N Racine Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 3400–3499 N Racine Ave. Everything here is from City records — 161,993 parking tickets written across 144 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 44, section 5. 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 3450 N Racine Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 3700 N Sheffield Ave alone took 820 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 3700 N Sheffield Ave — 820 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 1000 W Roscoe St — 758 tickets, 3 min walk E
- 900 W Roscoe St — 510 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 1100 W Addison St — 5,173 tickets, 5 min walk N
- 1100 W Eddy St — 3,224 tickets, 3 min walk N
- 3500 N Sheffield Ave — 1,850 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 3300 N Kenmore Ave — 923 tickets, 4 min walk E
- 1400 W Melrose St — 387 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 3300 N Lakewood Ave — 376 tickets, 3 min walk SW
- 3500 N Clark St — 10,190 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 3400 N Clark St — 7,057 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 900 W Addison St — 2,388 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 3500 N Southport Ave — 5,777 tickets, 6 min walk NW
- 3400 N Southport Ave — 5,450 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 3200 N Clark St — 4,968 tickets, 8 min walk SE
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 383 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 44, section 5. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.