Parking at 850 N Wood St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 800–899 N Wood St. Everything here is from City records — 114,234 parking tickets written across 159 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 168
A visitor without a day pass is a $75 ticket.
Cameras nearby?
4
1173 N Ashland Ave (9 min walk) · 1601 W Division St (9 min walk)
Streets to watch near 850 N Wood St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1800 W Rice St alone took 582 tickets in three years, a 1 min walk away.
Street cleaning11,149 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
- 1800 W Rice St — 582 tickets, 1 min walk SW
- 1600 W Augusta Blvd — 438 tickets, 4 min walk NE
- 1400 W Erie St — 411 tickets, 9 min walk SE
Permit zones22,268 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
- 1200 N Paulina St — 2,348 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 1100 N Marshfield Ave — 1,685 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 1000 N Marshfield Ave — 1,045 tickets, 7 min walk NE
Plate checks13,391 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
- 1000 N Paulina St — 876 tickets, 4 min walk NE
- 1600 W Superior St — 559 tickets, 5 min walk SE
- 1800 W Huron St — 516 tickets, 5 min walk S
Posted restrictions1,377 tickets
Posted time restrictions. Worth reading the sign twice — this block is enforced.
- 1200 N Wood St — 731 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 1800 W Grand Ave — 309 tickets, 9 min walk S
- 1600 W Grand Ave — 183 tickets, 10 min walk S
Metered blocks66,049 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
- 1700 W Division St — 5,529 tickets, 8 min walk N
- 1100 N Ashland Ave — 4,506 tickets, 8 min walk NE
- 1600 W Chicago Ave — 4,497 tickets, 4 min walk SE
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 1173 N Ashland Ave — red-light camera, 9 min walk NE
- 1601 W Division St — red-light camera, 9 min walk NE
- 1950 W Division St — red-light camera, 9 min walk NW
- 2005 W Division St — red-light camera, 10 min walk NW
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 168 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.
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.