Pick-up truck in the city (Chicago, Oak Park: rent, to live, versus)

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

4. Did I mention parking? Not only are street spaces that large harder to find, downtown parking garages are often designed with tighter parameters and many parking lots are tight. You'll **** off a lot of people with that truck.

A pickup smells like downstate to city residents. Seriously, as Lookout said, you're going to irritate a lot of people. And in Chicago, when you irritate people they like to politely express irritation with blown out windows and key jobs

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by coldwine

A pickup smells like downstate to city residents. Seriously, as Lookout said, you're going to irritate a lot of people. And in Chicago, when you irritate people they like to politely express irritation with blown out windows and key jobs

Wow, that makes Chicago sound a lot tougher than it really is. I like it.

[Chicago60614]

My roommate had a pickup truck for 5 yearson Kedzie Boulevard in Logan Square and on Sheffield in Lakeview.

It was awesome for moving stuff, and she never had any problems at all. Parked it on the street. The only issue was drunk people putting random crap in the cab, but whatever.

[87vertgt]

I gotta pickup too (Lightning ;-) )

biggest problems are

you cant drive it on Lake shore drive-which I do, never got pulled over
your not supposed to park on the residential streets as you will get a ticket-which I do, but tickets are only issued in ares on town where the cops have nothing to do...so in nice white areas...

thats about it.....

oh, at the drive in....they make you park all the way in back and at Sox games too...

[Lookout Kid]

My friend got a ticket for driving his pickup on Diversey, which is apparently part of the "Boulevard System" even over near the lake where there is no boulevard. He got a firefighter's license plate a couple of years ago, however, and hasn't had a ticket since. You don't need to be a firefighter to get one apparently!

[Spyowns]

Get a cap for it and get RV plates.

This is how you have a pick-up truck in the city limits. You will be able to drive on LSD and the boulevards no prob.

Chicagoans will not think you are hick or a rube. Your friends and co workers will ask you to help them move, though.

[Brahern02]

I had a pickup till it got totalled in a car accident a few years ago. Bought a car after that. If you really want to keep it, get the "Environmental" or Prevent Domestic Violence" license plate. It does cost more but it will get you out of a ticket. Plus, I found out the hard way, there is also an ordinance about parking anything with truck plates on city side streets. You will be ticketed 40 bucks for it, especially on the North Side. I think I paid something like 119 dollars a year when I switched to the environmental plates. But in the 2 years I had them before the truck was destroyed, I had no problems. No modifications are needed to the truck either.

[Jesse69]

Pickups shouldn't be used for daily transportation, but they are needed by construction worker. It's stupid to ban them in Chicago Boulevards. Is this a stupid Daley law?

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Wow, that makes Chicago sound a lot tougher than it really is. I like it.

Were we living in the same Chicago?

As a student at UC, I can definitely remember people in the hood and in other places I inevitably lived as a student expressing distaste in this manner

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by coldwine

Were we living in the same Chicago?

As a student at UC, I can definitely remember people in the hood and in other places I inevitably lived as a student expressing distaste in this manner

Only if you move their lawn furniture or saw horses from a shoveled out parking space in the winter!

My car has been vandalized, yes. And I drove a Civic at the time. I must be forgetting about all of that street nonsense now that I park indoors.