Parking at 50 E Goethe St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 0–99 E Goethe St. Everything here is from City records — 196,334 parking tickets written across 104 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 43, section 8. 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 50 E Goethe St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1400 N Astor St alone took 1,350 tickets in three years, a 4 min walk away.
- 1400 N Astor St — 1,350 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 0 E Scott St — 1,134 tickets, 3 min walk E
- 1200 N Astor St — 1,017 tickets, 2 min walk SE
- 0 E Cedar St — 3,488 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 0 E Bellevue Pl — 2,196 tickets, 6 min walk S
- 1500 N Dearborn Pkwy — 2,192 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 300 W Schiller St — 743 tickets, 10 min walk W
- 200 W Hill St — 609 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 1500 N La Salle St — 575 tickets, 9 min walk NW
- 1200 N Dearborn St — 10,834 tickets, 2 min walk W
- 1100 N State St — 10,380 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 1000 N Rush St — 6,179 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 0 E Oak St — 9,421 tickets, 7 min walk S
- 0 E Walton St — 8,137 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 1200 N Wells St — 7,494 tickets, 7 min walk W
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 74 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 43, section 8. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.