Parking at 5550 N Menard
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 5500–5599 N Menard. Everything here is from City records — 5,845 parking tickets written across 127 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 45, section 16. 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 5550 N Menard
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 5500 N Central Ave alone took 100 tickets in three years, a 5 min walk away.
- 5500 N Central Ave — 100 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 5600 N Mango Ave — 98 tickets, 2 min walk NE
- 5400 N Monitor Ave — 97 tickets, 4 min walk S
- 5500 N Menard — 133 tickets, 1 min walk N
- 5500 W Catalpa Ave — 106 tickets, 7 min walk E
- 5500 N Luna Ave — 85 tickets, 6 min walk E
- 5500 N Northwest Hwy — 138 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 5500 N Mango Ave — 122 tickets, 2 min walk SE
- 5500 N Austin Ave — 116 tickets, 5 min walk W
- 5200 N Milwaukee Ave — 92 tickets, 10 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 5432 N Central Ave — speed camera, 6 min walk SE
- 5272 N Central Ave — red-light camera, 9 min walk SE
- �5310 N Milwaukee Ave — red-light camera, 9 min walk SE
- 5242 N Northwest Hwy — red-light camera, 10 min walk S
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 2263 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 4 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 45, section 16. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.