Parking at 950 N Wood St
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 900–999 N Wood St. Everything here is from City records — 139,982 parking tickets written across 161 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?
5
1601 W Division St (7 min walk) · 1173 N Ashland Ave (7 min walk)
Streets to watch near 950 N Wood St
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1800 W Rice St alone took 582 tickets in three years, a 3 min walk away.
Street cleaning10,481 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
- 1800 W Rice St — 582 tickets, 3 min walk S
- 1900 W Crystal St — 577 tickets, 8 min walk NW
- 1600 W Augusta Blvd — 438 tickets, 3 min walk E
Permit zones23,939 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
- 1200 N Paulina St — 2,348 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 1100 N Marshfield Ave — 1,685 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 1000 N Marshfield Ave — 1,045 tickets, 5 min walk NE
Plate checks15,093 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
- 1200 N Wolcott Ave — 959 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 1000 N Paulina St — 876 tickets, 3 min walk NE
- 1200 N Bosworth Ave — 602 tickets, 9 min walk NE
Posted restrictions1,360 tickets
Posted time restrictions. Worth reading the sign twice — this block is enforced.
- 1200 N Wood St — 731 tickets, 7 min walk N
- 1200 N Hermitage Ave — 408 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 1100 N Cleaver St — 180 tickets, 10 min walk NE
Metered blocks89,071 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
- 1300 N Milwaukee Ave — 8,398 tickets, 10 min walk N
- 1200 N Milwaukee Ave — 6,840 tickets, 9 min walk N
- 1700 W Division St — 5,529 tickets, 6 min walk N
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 1601 W Division St — red-light camera, 7 min walk NE
- 1173 N Ashland Ave — red-light camera, 7 min walk NE
- 1950 W Division St — red-light camera, 7 min walk NW
- 2005 W Division St — red-light camera, 8 min walk NW
- 1455 W Division St — speed camera, 9 min walk NE
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 5 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.