Parking at 5050 S Carpenter St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 5000–5099 S Carpenter St. Everything here is from City records — 7,308 parking tickets written across 97 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 20, section 2. 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 5050 S Carpenter St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 5000 S Morgan St alone took 90 tickets in three years, a 2 min walk away.
- 5000 S Morgan St — 90 tickets, 2 min walk NE
- 5100 S Loomis Blvd — 89 tickets, 9 min walk W
- 4800 S May St — 84 tickets, 6 min walk NW
- 5400 S Carpenter St — 71 tickets, 10 min walk S
- 5300 S May St — 56 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 4800 S Elizabeth St — 329 tickets, 7 min walk NW
- 700 W 50th Pl — 274 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 900 W 54th Pl — 244 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 900 W 51st St — 114 tickets, 2 min walk E
- 5100 S Racine Ave — 123 tickets, 4 min walk SW
- 1100 W 51st St — 66 tickets, 3 min walk W
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- 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 20, section 2. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.