Parking at 50 N Carpenter St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 0–99 N Carpenter St. Everything here is from City records — 237,034 parking tickets written across 167 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 34, section 5. 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 Carpenter St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 900 W Van Buren St alone took 596 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 900 W Van Buren St — 596 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 300 S Peoria St — 492 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 1100 W Van Buren St — 454 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 0 N Aberdeen St — 1,375 tickets, 1 min walk SW
- 100 S Peoria St — 1,369 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 1200 W Van Buren St — 997 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 100 N May St — 997 tickets, 4 min walk NW
- 100 N Ada St — 748 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 1000 W Van Buren St — 727 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 300 N Green St — 1,236 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 900 W Adams St — 792 tickets, 6 min walk SE
- 1100 W Lake St — 666 tickets, 5 min walk NW
- 900 W Randolph St — 19,549 tickets, 4 min walk NE
- 1000 W Randolph St — 11,774 tickets, 3 min walk N
- 100 N Sangamon St — 6,828 tickets, 4 min walk NE
- 400 N Sangamon St — 1,134 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 600 W Walnut St — 227 tickets, 10 min walk NE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 14 N Halsted St — red-light camera, 6 min walk E
- 3 S Halsted St — red-light camera, 6 min walk E
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 2235 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- 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 34, section 5. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.