Parking at 4850 N Damen Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 4800–4899 N Damen Ave. Everything here is from City records — 39,949 parking tickets written across 132 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 47, section 20. 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 4850 N Damen Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1900 W Winona St alone took 329 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
- 1900 W Winona St — 329 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 4400 N Winchester Ave — 306 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 5000 N Wolcott Ave — 275 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 4800 N Wolcott Ave — 548 tickets, 3 min walk E
- 4800 N Paulina St — 514 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 4600 N Winchester Ave — 502 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 5000 N Winchester Ave — 440 tickets, 5 min walk N
- 2100 W Giddings St — 229 tickets, 5 min walk SW
- 4600 N Seeley Ave — 227 tickets, 6 min walk S
- 1900 W Sunnyside Ave — 316 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 4700 N Wolcott Ave — 194 tickets, 4 min walk SE
- 1800 W Wilson Ave — 133 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 4700 N Lincoln Ave — 5,488 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 2300 W Lawrence Ave — 2,796 tickets, 10 min walk W
- 4600 N Lincoln Ave — 2,700 tickets, 10 min walk SW
- 4600 N Ravenswood Ave — 412 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 4500 N Ravenswood Ave — 377 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 4700 N Ravenswood Ave — 347 tickets, 5 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 5059 N Damen Ave — speed camera, 6 min walk N
- 1601 W Lawrence Ave — red-light camera, 10 min walk E
- 4804 N Ashland Ave — red-light camera, 10 min walk E
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 62 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 3 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 47, section 20. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.