Parking at 950 S Desplaines
Chicago sets parking rules by the block, so this covers 900–999 S Desplaines. Everything here is from City records — 85,428 parking tickets written across 97 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block
Ward 28, 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 950 S Desplaines
street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 1000 W Roosevelt Rd alone took 285 tickets in three years, a 9 min walk away.
- 1000 W Roosevelt Rd — 285 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 400 S Clinton St — 1,123 tickets, 8 min walk N
- 1000 W Polk St — 1,046 tickets, 9 min walk W
- 800 S Miller St — 1,001 tickets, 9 min walk W
- 1200 S Morgan St — 301 tickets, 9 min walk SW
- 1200 S Canal Street — 69 tickets, 7 min walk SE
- 1000 S Morgan St — 61 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 600 S Clinton St — 1,240 tickets, 6 min walk NE
- 700 W Maxwell — 588 tickets, 8 min walk S
- 700 S Halsted — 218 tickets, 5 min walk NW
- 1100 S Canal St — 17,618 tickets, 6 min walk SE
- 500 W Roosevelt Road — 6,301 tickets, 6 min walk SE
- 1200 S Clinton St — 4,938 tickets, 6 min walk SE
- 700 W Polk — 2,111 tickets, 4 min walk NW
- 800 S Morgan — 163 tickets, 8 min walk W
- 700 W Taylor — 163 tickets, 1 min walk SW
Cameras within a 10-minute walk
- 732 W Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 5 min walk SW
- 809 W Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 6 min walk SW
- 644 Roosevelt Rd — red-light camera, 7 min walk SE
- 1215 S Canal St — red-light camera, 7 min walk SE
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 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.
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 28, section 1. Schedules change — always follow the posted signs.