Parking at 50 N Ada St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 0–99 N Ada St. Everything here is from City records — 118,690 parking tickets written across 145 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 27, section 7. 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 N Ada St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1100 W Van Buren St alone took 454 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 1100 W Van Buren St — 454 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 100 S Aberdeen St — 320 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 100 S Morgan St — 240 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 1500 W Monroe St — 1,816 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 0 N Aberdeen St — 1,375 tickets, 6 min walk E
- 1600 W Adams St — 1,253 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 1400 W Randolph St — 1,298 tickets, 4 min walk NW
- 100 N May St — 997 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 100 N Ada St — 748 tickets, 3 min walk N
- 1100 W Lake St — 666 tickets, 7 min walk NE
- 1400 W Lake St — 375 tickets, 6 min walk NW
- 1300 W Adams St — 341 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 1000 W Randolph St — 11,774 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 1300 W Randolph St — 6,321 tickets, 3 min walk N
- 100 N Aberdeen St — 5,501 tickets, 7 min walk NE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 115 N Ogden Ave — speed camera, 4 min walk W
- 1546 W Madison St — red-light camera, 6 min walk W
- 1341 W Jackson Blvd — speed camera, 6 min walk S
- 5 S Ashland Ave — red-light camera, 6 min walk W
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 665 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 27, section 7. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.