Parking at 850 S May
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 800–899 S May. Everything here is from City records — 60,442 parking tickets written across 136 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 34, 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 850 S May
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1100 W Taylor St alone took 1,000 tickets in three years, a 2 min walk away.
- 1100 W Taylor St — 1,000 tickets, 2 min walk SW
- 800 S Loomis St — 762 tickets, 7 min walk W
- 700 S Loomis St — 737 tickets, 7 min walk NW
- 1000 W Vernon Park Pl — 1,281 tickets, 4 min walk N
- 1400 W Fillmore St — 1,215 tickets, 9 min walk W
- 1000 W Polk St — 1,046 tickets, 4 min walk NE
- 1000 W Van Buren St — 727 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 1300 W Van Buren St — 511 tickets, 10 min walk NW
- 800 S Lytle St — 426 tickets, 3 min walk W
- 900 S Racine Ave — 459 tickets, 2 min walk SW
- 700 S Halsted — 218 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 1000 W Tilden St — 210 tickets, 8 min walk N
- 1400 W Taylor St — 7,150 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 1300 W Taylor St — 5,099 tickets, 6 min walk W
- 1000 W Taylor St — 3,221 tickets, 3 min walk SE
- 700 W Polk — 2,111 tickets, 9 min walk E
- 1100 W Harrison — 184 tickets, 5 min walk N
- 800 S Morgan — 163 tickets, 4 min walk E
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 812 S Racine Ave — speed camera, 2 min walk NW
- 809 W Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 10 min walk SE
How to not get any of these
- A text the night before every cleaning day on this block.
- Zone 5 rules, so a guest doesn’t collect a $75 ticket.
- 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 34, section 6. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.