Parking at 550 W Erie St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 500–599 W Erie St. Everything here is from City records — 201,378 parking tickets written across 146 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 42, section 1. 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 W Erie St
permit zones is the thing to watch around here: 500 W Erie St alone took 2,797 tickets in three years, a 1 min walk away.
- 500 W Erie St — 2,797 tickets, 1 min walk N
- 900 W Huron St — 929 tickets, 10 min walk W
- 500 W Huron St — 725 tickets, 1 min walk NW
- 300 N Clinton St — 1,192 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 800 N Hudson Ave — 1,087 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 900 N Hudson Ave — 715 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 100 W Illinois St — 8,805 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 600 N Wells St — 6,549 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 200 W Ontario — 2,159 tickets, 7 min walk E
- 300 W Hubbard St — 9,123 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 400 N Franklin St — 7,430 tickets, 9 min walk SE
- 400 N Wells St — 7,075 tickets, 10 min walk SE
- 400 W Chicago Ave — 1,952 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 800 N Cambridge — 365 tickets, 5 min walk N
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 1189 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- 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 42, section 1. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.