Parking at 3650 N Drake Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 3600–3699 N Drake Ave. Everything here is from City records — 19,516 parking tickets written across 123 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 35, section 13. 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 3650 N Drake Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 3800 N Sawyer Ave alone took 258 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 3800 N Sawyer Ave — 258 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 3600 W School St — 258 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 4000 N St Louis Ave — 253 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 3300 N Central Park Ave — 405 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 3700 W Cornelia Ave — 308 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 3300 N Hamlin Ave — 284 tickets, 10 min walk SW
- 3300 N Ridgeway Ave — 416 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 3300 N Lawndale Ave — 279 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 3300 W Byron St — 244 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 3700 W Addison St — 205 tickets, 6 min walk W
- 3800 W Addison St — 50 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 3100 W Addison St — 47 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 3400 W Irving Park Rd — 1,137 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 3500 W Irving Park Rd — 524 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 4000 N Central Park Ave — 482 tickets, 10 min walk N
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 3616 N Elston Ave — red-light camera, 7 min walk E
- 3241 W Addison St — red-light camera, 8 min walk E
- 3647 W Irving Park Rd — red-light camera, 9 min walk N
- 4020 N Elston Ave — red-light camera, 10 min walk N
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 33 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 4 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 35, section 13. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.