Parking at 3450 W Carmen Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 3400–3499 W Carmen Ave. Everything here is from City records — 51,352 parking tickets written across 123 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 39, 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 3450 W Carmen Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 4900 N Kedzie Ave alone took 468 tickets in three years, a 6 min walk away.
- 4900 N Kedzie Ave — 468 tickets, 6 min walk E
- 3200 W Argyle St — 456 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 3400 W Leland Ave — 444 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 4900 N Christiana Ave — 476 tickets, 3 min walk SE
- 4800 N Bernard St — 370 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 4800 N Central Park Ave — 362 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 4900 N Ridgeway Ave — 378 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 5000 N Albany Ave — 372 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 4900 N Whipple St — 237 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 4600 N St Louis Ave — 614 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 3600 W Leland — 502 tickets, 10 min walk SW
- 5000 N Central Park Ave — 495 tickets, 4 min walk W
- 3600 W Lawrence Ave — 3,528 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 3500 W Lawrence Ave — 3,334 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 3400 W Lawrence Ave — 2,826 tickets, 6 min walk S
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 765 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 39, section 10. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.