Parking at 550 S State St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 500–599 S State St. Everything here is from City records — 194,332 parking tickets written across 152 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 4, section 15. 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 S State St
permit zones is the thing to watch around here: 800 S Financial Pl alone took 1,285 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
- 800 S Financial Pl — 1,285 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 800 S Wells St — 1,269 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 700 S Wells St — 1,034 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 400 S Plymouth Ct — 585 tickets, 2 min walk NW
- 400 S La Salle St — 251 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 300 S State St — 211 tickets, 3 min walk N
- 0 S Wabash Ave — 6,945 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 0 E Madison St — 5,120 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 0 E Adams St — 3,471 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 100 S Wabash Ave — 6,176 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 0 E 9th St — 6,004 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 0 E 11th St — 5,892 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 100 W Adams St — 713 tickets, 8 min walk NW
- 400 S Dearborn St — 686 tickets, 2 min walk NW
- 300 W Jackson Blvd — 337 tickets, 10 min walk NW
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 630 S State St — speed camera, 2 min walk S
- 629 S State St — speed camera, 2 min walk S
- 385 Michigan Ave — speed camera, 5 min walk NE
- 73 E Jackson Blvd — red-light camera, 5 min walk NE
- 311 S Michigan Ave — red-light camera, 5 min walk NE
- 200 S Michigan Ave — speed camera, 7 min walk NE
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 1673 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 4, section 15. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.