Parking at 50 S Wood St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 0–99 S Wood St. Everything here is from City records — 38,526 parking tickets written across 131 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 27, 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 S Wood St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 2000 W Washington Blvd alone took 212 tickets in three years, a 8 min walk away.
- 2000 W Washington Blvd — 212 tickets, 8 min walk NW
- 2100 W Washington Blvd — 173 tickets, 10 min walk NW
- 1700 W Jackson Blvd — 136 tickets, 4 min walk SE
- 1500 W Monroe St — 1,816 tickets, 6 min walk E
- 1600 W Adams St — 1,253 tickets, 4 min walk SE
- 1600 W Warren Blvd — 1,197 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 100 S Laflin St — 509 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 2000 W Adams St — 410 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 100 S Wood St — 369 tickets, 1 min walk S
- 1600 W Congress Pkwy — 1,236 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 1700 W Congress Pkwy — 987 tickets, 7 min walk S
- 1600 W Jackson Blvd — 492 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 1900 W Congress Pkwy — 2,909 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 1800 W Harrison St — 2,398 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 600 S Wood St — 2,146 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 1900 W Jackson Blvd — 500 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 1700 W Harrison St — 187 tickets, 9 min walk S
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 5 S Ashland Ave — red-light camera, 5 min walk E
- 1546 W Madison St — red-light camera, 6 min walk E
- 115 N Ogden Ave — speed camera, 9 min walk NE
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 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 27, section 5. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.