Politics & Government
Legally Parked, Ticketed Anyway: Bogus Street Cleaning Fines
It's a warning to drivers – Friday is street cleaning day so don't park there or you will get a ticket.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Marcus Jones sits on the front stoop of his Auburn Gresham home. On a city pole across from him, there is a bright yellow sign with a large letter “F”. It’s a warning to drivers — Friday is street cleaning day so don’t park there or you will get a ticket.
Marcus Jones would give the letter F as a grade to the City of Chicago for how it is posting these signs and issuing street cleaning tickets in his neighborhood. City of Chicago workers are supposed to hang street cleaning signs in places where you can see them, have time to move your car and avoid a ticket. But throughout Jones’ Auburn Gresham neighborhood, our CBS 2 Investigators found street cleaning signs in disarray – torn, not clearly visible, or missing altogether.
