Parking at 5150 S St Louis Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 5100–5199 S St Louis Ave. Everything here is from City records — 12,578 parking tickets written across 92 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 14, section 11. 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 5150 S St Louis Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 3200 W 53rd St alone took 223 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
- 3200 W 53rd St — 223 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 3100 W 52nd St — 173 tickets, 10 min walk E
- 3300 W 51st St — 86 tickets, 3 min walk NE
- 3100 W 53rd St — 677 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 3400 W 54th Pl — 537 tickets, 6 min walk S
- 5200 S Troy St — 472 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 3200 W 54th St — 340 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 5200 S Christiana Ave — 315 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 5300 S Sawyer Ave — 310 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 5100 S Kedzie Ave — 513 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 5200 S Kedzie Ave — 325 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 3300 W 55th St — 268 tickets, 10 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 3510 W 55th St — speed camera, 9 min walk S
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 2336 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 1 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 14, section 11. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.