Parking at 50 W 78th Pl
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 0–99 W 78th Pl. Everything here is from City records — 11,323 parking tickets written across 107 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 6, section 22. 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 W 78th Pl
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 7600 S Stewart Ave alone took 258 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 7600 S Stewart Ave — 258 tickets, 9 min walk NW
- 7900 S Harvard Ave — 152 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 7800 S Wabash Ave — 143 tickets, 4 min walk E
- 7900 S Wabash Ave — 1,275 tickets, 4 min walk SE
- 7500 S Michigan — 569 tickets, 9 min walk NE
- 7600 S Wabash Ave — 473 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 7800 S Indiana Ave — 201 tickets, 7 min walk E
- 0 E 80th St — 162 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 8000 S Michigan Ave — 162 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 7900 S State Street — 288 tickets, 4 min walk SE
- 0 W 80th St — 84 tickets, 4 min walk S
- 7400 S State — 62 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 0 E 75th Street — 1,192 tickets, 10 min walk NE
- 0 E 79th Street — 61 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 0 W 79th St — 56 tickets, 2 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 12 E 79th St — red-light camera, 3 min walk SE
- 7913 S State St — red-light camera, 3 min walk SE
- 7501 S State St — red-light camera, 9 min walk N
- 7518 S Vincennes Ave — speed camera, 9 min walk NW
- 4 E 75th St — red-light camera, 9 min walk N
- 341 W 76th St — speed camera, 9 min walk NW
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 64 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 6 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 6, section 22. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.