Parking at 5550 S Ada St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 5500–5599 S Ada St. Everything here is from City records — 9,018 parking tickets written across 124 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 16, section 6. 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 S Ada St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 5400 S Bishop St alone took 177 tickets in three years, a 4 min walk away.
- 5400 S Bishop St — 177 tickets, 4 min walk NW
- 5700 S May St — 139 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 5600 S May St — 127 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 5300 S Laflin St — 93 tickets, 7 min walk NW
- 5700 S Throop — 76 tickets, 5 min walk S
- 5400 S Carpenter St — 71 tickets, 8 min walk E
- 5400 S May St — 358 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 5600 S Throop St — 244 tickets, 2 min walk SE
- 5700 S Aberdeen — 205 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 1400 W Garfield Blvd — 125 tickets, 3 min walk W
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 1315 W Garfield Blvd — speed camera, 1 min walk NE
- 1334 W Garfield Blvd — speed camera, 2 min walk N
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 2 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 16, section 6. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.