Parking at 850 E 71st St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 800–899 E 71st St. Everything here is from City records — 7,609 parking tickets written across 84 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 5, 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 850 E 71st St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 7100 S Ingleside Ave alone took 135 tickets in three years, a 3 min walk away.
- 7100 S Ingleside Ave — 135 tickets, 3 min walk SE
- 7100 S Woodlawn Ave — 126 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 7100 S Dobson Ave — 112 tickets, 5 min walk E
- 7400 S Evans — 218 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 7300 S Champlain Ave — 186 tickets, 8 min walk SW
- 7100 S South Chicago Ave — 105 tickets, 1 min walk S
- 7200 S Champlain — 301 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 7200 S St Lawrence Ave — 297 tickets, 7 min walk SW
- 7200 S Rhodes — 271 tickets, 8 min walk SW
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 819 E 71st St — speed camera, 1 min walk E
- 7122 S South Chicago Ave — speed camera, 1 min walk SW
- 7050 S Cottage Grove Ave — red-light camera, 2 min walk NW
- 7157 S South Chicago Ave — speed camera, 2 min walk SE
- 7082 S South Chicago Ave — red-light camera, 2 min walk W
- 441 E 71st St — speed camera, 10 min walk W
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 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 5, section 1. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.