Parking at 450 E 61st St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 400–499 E 61st St. Everything here is from City records — 11,261 parking tickets written across 100 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 20, section 16. 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 450 E 61st St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 6200 S Indiana Ave alone took 301 tickets in three years, a 8 min walk away.
- 6200 S Indiana Ave — 301 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 6100 S Vernon Ave — 236 tickets, 1 min walk SW
- 5900 S Indiana Ave — 226 tickets, 8 min walk NW
- 6100 S Drexel Ave — 381 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 6000 S Drexel Ave — 232 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 6400 S Vernon — 180 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 6100 S Eberhart Ave — 308 tickets, 1 min walk SE
- 6000 S Indiana Ave — 278 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 6100 S Indiana Ave — 253 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 5800 S Payne Dr — 588 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 5900 S Payne Dr — 261 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 400 E 63rd Street — 49 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 5800 S Russell Dr — 48 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 6000 S Cottage Grove Ave — 45 tickets, 8 min walk E
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 6330 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr — speed camera, 7 min walk S
- 215 E 63rd St — speed camera, 8 min walk SW
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 2 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 20, section 16. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.