Parking at 550 E 51st St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 500–599 E 51st St. Everything here is from City records — 17,911 parking tickets written across 93 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 20, section 13. 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 550 E 51st St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 400 E 48th St alone took 574 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
- 400 E 48th St — 574 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 4700 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr — 461 tickets, 10 min walk NW
- 4800 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr — 403 tickets, 7 min walk NW
- 4900 S Drexel Blvd — 774 tickets, 10 min walk NE
- 600 E 50th Pl — 598 tickets, 3 min walk NE
- 800 E 49th St — 577 tickets, 10 min walk NE
- 5000 S Forrestville Ave — 898 tickets, 2 min walk N
- 5000 S Champlain Ave — 356 tickets, 3 min walk E
- 5300 S Payne Dr — 48 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 500 E 51st St — 427 tickets, 1 min walk N
- 300 E 51st St — 135 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 5100 S Cottage Grove Ave — 69 tickets, 7 min walk E
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 5330 S Cottage Grove Ave — speed camera, 9 min walk SE
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 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 20, section 13. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.