Parking at 550 N St Louis Ave
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 500–599 N St Louis Ave. Everything here is from City records — 14,612 parking tickets written across 121 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 27, 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 550 N St Louis Ave
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 3200 W Fulton Blvd alone took 377 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 3200 W Fulton Blvd — 377 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 3300 W Fulton Blvd — 304 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 700 N Ridgeway — 275 tickets, 8 min walk NW
- 800 N Trumbull — 434 tickets, 8 min walk N
- 600 N Christiana Ave — 308 tickets, 5 min walk NE
- 700 N Spaulding — 284 tickets, 7 min walk NE
- 800 N St Louis — 182 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 400 N Central Park — 47 tickets, 3 min walk W
- 3500 W Fulton — 287 tickets, 7 min walk S
- 700 N Trumbull Ave — 219 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 500 N Ridgeway — 201 tickets, 6 min walk W
- 500 N Homan Ave — 266 tickets, 3 min walk E
- 700 N Homan Ave — 184 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 800 N Homan Ave — 109 tickets, 8 min walk N
- 600 N Kedzie — 135 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 3400 W Chicago — 91 tickets, 6 min walk N
- 700 N Kedzie — 41 tickets, 9 min walk NE
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 27, section 2. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.