This is a big part of the reason > 100 people leave Chicago every day. My wife and I have never been happier than walking away from 1k worth of unavoidable tickets (Chicago's collection abilities are near 0 outside IL). They are a horrible, inefficient method to collect tax revenue. I'd estimate each ticket wastes ~4 hours of time for the recipient. Most of the people I know who lived there also had some towing occur, which wastes more like 24 hours of time. The ticket problem looks like a consequence of the disastrous meter deal (the city sold the rights to it's parking meters). Vote with your feet people.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] thread(Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/chicago-e...) note: moved to Austin.