City of Chicago towed nearly 250 cars on first night of winter parking ban:
Chicago put its winter parking ban into effect on December 1—and towed nearly 250 cars for breaking the rules on the first night alone.
The ban takes effect on 107 miles of road throughout the city, regardless of snow, with a further 500 miles of road parking available to be banned in the event of two or more inches of snowfall. Any unlucky violators are forced to pay a minimum $235 for their mistake, a figure that includes a $25-per-day storage fee.
If you are one of 242 unfortunate Chicago residents, you may have gotten up on Thursday morning, brewed your morning coffee, and walked outside to find that your car was no longer where you had left it the night before. Fortunately, the missing cars weren't actually missing: they had been towed by the city due to the return of Chicago's winter parking ban, which went into effect on December 1, blocking 107 miles of roads from parking between 3:00 and 7:00 a.m.
Every year between December 1 and April 1, Chicago puts an overnight parking ban on more than 100 miles of roads, regardless of weather. A ban of a further 500 miles of Chicago roadways can be put in place anytime throughout the year when more than two inches of snow have fallen—although, according to
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