Parking at 850 N Sedgwick St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 800–899 N Sedgwick St. Everything here is from City records — 195,675 parking tickets written across 154 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
When is this block cleaned?
Not published
No 2026 season is published for this section.
Do I need a permit?
Zone 1189
A visitor without a day pass is a $75 ticket.
Cameras nearby?
3
105 W Chicago Ave (7 min walk) · 901 N Clark St (8 min walk)
Streets to watch near 850 N Sedgwick St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 100 W Oak St alone took 563 tickets in three years, a 7 min walk away.
Street cleaning563 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
- 100 W Oak St — 563 tickets, 7 min walk NE
Permit zones6,785 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
- 500 W Erie St — 2,797 tickets, 6 min walk SW
- 800 N La Salle St — 819 tickets, 7 min walk NE
- 500 W Huron St — 725 tickets, 5 min walk SW
Plate checks9,967 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
- 800 N Hudson Ave — 1,087 tickets, 2 min walk NW
- 900 N Hudson Ave — 715 tickets, 3 min walk NW
- 200 W Hill St — 609 tickets, 8 min walk NE
Posted restrictions11,741 tickets
Posted time restrictions. Worth reading the sign twice — this block is enforced.
- 600 N Wells St — 6,549 tickets, 8 min walk SE
- 200 W Ontario — 2,159 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 500 N La Salle St — 873 tickets, 9 min walk SE
Metered blocks163,228 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
- 0 W Superior St — 7,569 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 100 W Huron St — 6,877 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 200 W Erie St — 5,869 tickets, 6 min walk SE
Other enforcement3,221 tickets
Enforced regularly. Read the posted signs before you park.
- 400 W Chicago Ave — 1,952 tickets, 3 min walk W
- 100 W Chicago Avenue — 904 tickets, 7 min walk E
- 800 N Cambridge — 365 tickets, 3 min walk W
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 105 W Chicago Ave — red-light camera, 7 min walk E
- 901 N Clark St — speed camera, 8 min walk E
- 98 W Chicago Ave — red-light camera, 8 min walk E
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.
- A spoken warning before you reach any of the 3 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.
The average ticketed Chicago driver pays $319 a year in fines and late fees. Autopilot is $99/year.
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 , section . Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.