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Old 09-01-2011, 07:02 AM
 
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My son has got a number of parking tickets and like another poster says some of them are false or for no reason. One ticket he claims said he did not have a license plate (I know the car does because I own it). He thinks cops are sometimes writing tickets for no reason. The latest "fake" ticket he got was on Racine near the above address. He claims he was not parked at this address but on the other side of the street. He says that on Racine in that vacinity, one side of the street is marked for residential parking permits but the other side where he was parked is not.

Does anyone live near here and can verify this? I have a few days to contest this ticket. Pls advise. Also how many of you have received "fake tickets", and I wonder if there is anything we can do about it short of contesting each one.
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Old 09-01-2011, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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I've received a handful of tickets where the revenue agent has just flat-out lied about where the car is parked in order to turn a perfectly legal parking situation into a ticketable offense. (Keep in mind that 99% of the time it's a revenue agent doing this, not a cop.) Your only salvation is if a) your son's claim and explanation of the facts is true, b) the revenue agent took a photo of the violation (will say "this violation is supported by photo evidence" or something of that sort), and c) the photo is wide-angle enough to capture enough background images such as buildings to determine which side of the street he's parked on. Short of that or capturing the agent on video in the act, there's virtually nothing you can do about it except write it off as another random arbitrary tax assessment by the city.
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Old 09-01-2011, 08:28 AM
 
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good advice. I think they are issuing a lot of fake tickets to people. This is a scandal.
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Old 09-01-2011, 02:38 PM
 
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I'm going through a similar issue right now and contesting a ticket, which you probably saw in my thread.

Just like the previous poster stated, find out if it's true. The best circumstances would be if photos were taken with the ticket by the officer, which should be online. If so, prove that it was the wrong address by anything in that photo that can help.
Really, the officer can write the wrong address and if no photo was taken, there is no way to prove it. It's total bs and there's nothing we can do about it.

Check out this site, might be helpful: TheExpiredMeter Educating and informing Chicago about fighting parking tickets, red light camera enforcement and parking and driving news and issues
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Old 09-01-2011, 03:36 PM
 
Location: Chicago - Logan Square
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You can find out if the area is covered by residential permits here. Just enter an address on the other side of the street (i.e. 3008) and see what you get. If it gives you "you live in zone X (Buffer Zone)" in the results, that means it is not permit parking at that address. If it says "you live in zone X", that means it is permit.

It is possible that one side is permit and the other isn't, but I can't think of many residential permit restrictions like that, they tend to go by block, not by side of the street. You could use Google Maps street view to get a better idea of the permit signage in the area, he may have just missed the sign.
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Old 09-01-2011, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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You can find out if the area is covered by residential permits here. Just enter an address on the other side of the street (i.e. 3008) and see what you get. If it gives you "you live in zone X (Buffer Zone)" in the results, that means it is not permit parking at that address. If it says "you live in zone X", that means it is permit.

It is possible that one side is permit and the other isn't, but I can't think of many residential permit restrictions like that, they tend to go by block, not by side of the street. You could use Google Maps street view to get a better idea of the permit signage in the area, he may have just missed the sign.
Where you'll occasionally find zoned (or metered) parking on one side of the street but not on the other is when the street in question is a ward boundary. That happens to be the case here, where Racine serves as the border between the 32nd and 44th wards from Diversey to Belmont. So Toria's son's claim that the street is zoned on one side but not the other is entirely plausible if the respective aldermen have different positions on zoned (or metered) parking in their wards. The fact that one side of Belmont is metered and not the other where Belmont serves as the 32nd/44th Ward boundary strongly suggests that the two aldermen indeed have different views on the issue of parking control.

Google Street View appears to support his claim that Racine is zoned on the 44th Ward side (east side, odd-numbered addresses) but not the 32nd Ward side (west side, even-numbered addresses), but there's no telling how old the Street View image is.
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Old 02-27-2014, 06:29 PM
 
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I agree, they write false tickets. I got a ticket for an address that does not even exist and in fact I was not even parked on that street at the time the ticket was written. I have contested it but failed. They took my State tax return to offset the funds but I am going to pursue this even though this was 3 years ago. I will continue to write to whomever I have to until this is resolved!!!

Fraud Chicago Cops!!!
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Old 02-27-2014, 07:12 PM
 
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about a month ago, I caught a "revenue agent" writing me a ticket in a zone that was permit after 6pm, I walked up as she was putting the ticket on my windshield. I told her it is 5:54pm, why are you giving me a ticket? She said her watch said 6:00 (first off wasn't wearing a watch). When I demanded to see her source of time, she conceded it wasn't yet 6:00 but the ticket had already been processed. Little does she know, I video taped the whole thing on my phone without her knowing, I hope she gets fired. Still have to go through all the BS to get the ticket thrown out. I wonder how many people pay the ticket in this situation.
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Old 02-27-2014, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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about a month ago, I caught a "revenue agent" writing me a ticket in a zone that was permit after 6pm, I walked up as she was putting the ticket on my windshield. I told her it is 5:54pm, why are you giving me a ticket? She said her watch said 6:00 (first off wasn't wearing a watch). When I demanded to see her source of time, she conceded it wasn't yet 6:00 but the ticket had already been processed. Little does she know, I video taped the whole thing on my phone without her knowing, I hope she gets fired. Still have to go through all the BS to get the ticket thrown out. I wonder how many people pay the ticket in this situation.
Unbelivable. I'd be curious to hear how the parking ticket people are compensated. If they need to write x number of tickets, that should be changed. I've gotten my fair share of tickets over the years, but nothing would **** me off more then getting one unlawfully
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Old 02-27-2014, 09:30 PM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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Streets can be zoned for residential parking on one side but not the other if there is a public school or park present. That said, I effin hate that they don't do jack to enforce moving violations but instead take this lazy way out to meet their quota. You give me a badge in Lake View to attack traffic scofflaws and I will make a mint!
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