Parking at 3450 S Cottage Grove Ave
US Letter, Portrait, margins None. One page. Add your name and photo from your referral kit to co-brand it.
Parking at this address

3450 S Cottage Grove Ave

Ward 4, cleaning section 12 · 19,108 parking tickets were written across 75 blocks within a 10-minute walk, 2023–2025.
When is this block cleaned?
Friday, September 11
Then Friday, October 23 · Monday, October 26. 9am–2pm. A missed one is $60.
Do I need a permit?
No
Not in a residential permit zone — but nearby blocks are, so a guest can still cross the line into one.
Cameras nearby?
None
No speed or red-light camera within a 10-minute walk.

Streets to watch nearby

street cleaning is the thing to watch around here: 400 E 35th St alone took 542 tickets in three years, a 3 min walk away.

Street cleaning1,786 tickets
Move the car on cleaning days — the restriction runs 9am to 2pm.
  • 400 E 35th St — 542, 3 min walk W
  • 600 E 35th St — 254, 3 min walk E
  • 3500 S Prairie Ave — 228, 10 min walk W
  • 3300 S Prairie Ave — 213, 10 min walk W
  • 3300 S Calumet Ave — 152, 7 min walk W
Permit zones3,752 tickets
Permit zone. You need a zone sticker or a day pass, whatever the hour.
  • 3100 S Rhodes Ave — 1,164, 9 min walk N
  • 500 E 32nd St — 635, 5 min walk N
  • 400 E 31st Street — 605, 9 min walk NW
  • 3200 S Rhodes Ave — 550, 6 min walk N
  • 3100 S Vernon Ave — 504, 9 min walk NW
Plate checks10,760 tickets
Plates get checked here. Keep your registration and both plates current.
  • 3500 S Rhodes Ave — 1,852, 5 min walk SW
  • 500 E Browning Ave — 637, 3 min walk S
  • 500 E 33rd Pl — 601, 3 min walk NW
  • 400 E 33rd St — 541, 5 min walk NW
  • 400 E 32nd St — 492, 8 min walk NW
Posted restrictions728 tickets
Posted time restrictions. Worth reading the sign twice — this block is enforced.
  • 3100 S Lake Shore Dr — 728, 9 min walk NE
Metered blocks1,264 tickets
Metered. Pay the full time you will actually be gone, and set an alarm.
  • 600 E 31st St — 1,264, 10 min walk N

Every 2026 street-cleaning day on this block

Ward 4, section 12. Restriction runs 9am–2pm on each of these; a missed one is $60, and it doubles if it goes unpaid.

May1Fri
May4Mon
Jun15Mon
Jun16Tue
Jul29Wed
Jul30Thu
Sep10Thu
Sep11Fri
Oct23Fri
Oct26Mon

What makes this easy

✓
Street cleaning
A text the night before every cleaning day on this block — the next is Friday, September 11.
–
Permit zone
Not needed here, but we flag the zones that start nearby.
–
Cameras
None nearby, but the app warns you anywhere in the city.
✓
City sticker & plates
A missed sticker is $200 and it’s a deadline, not a driving mistake. We buy them on time, every year.
✓
The tickets you still get
Contested by mail — 59% of mailed contests are dismissed — and paid before the fine doubles.
✓
What it costs
The average ticketed Chicago driver pays $319 a year in fines and late fees. Autopilot is $99/year.