Hey city sticker procrastinators!
Wednesday, July 15th is the deadline to purchase and display your 2009-2010 Chicago city vehicle sticker.
Enforcement begins Thursday morning, July 16th at the stroke of midnight.
Tickets for “failure to display” your city sticker will set you back $120, and late fees for buying your city sticker after July 15th is $40.
Get down to any of the three City Clerk’s office locations (City Hall, 5430 W. Gale St., 5674 S. Archer Ave.) or a Dept. of Revenue Substation (4770 S. Kedzie Boulevard, 2006 E. 95th Street, 2550 W. Addison Street or 400 W. Superior Street).
You will most likely have to endure long lines at all these locations.
If you’re not into waiting for hours, I suggest hitting up one of your local Currency Exchanges, pay the measly $5.50 fee and in just a few walking out with your city sticker.
I expect longer and longer lines, even at Currency Exchanges, the closer we get to the deadline.
So get your butt in gear!
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I hate to say it….but a goodly percentage of the PEA’s are Chomping at the Bit….
I personally am going out with 150 envelopes, 2 ticket books and 3 spare packs of paper on the 16th.
You forgot about the batmobile.
Oh yeah, and btw, i’m sure that no tickets will be issued to any innocent suburbanites, whose plates are registered in the ‘burbs for not displaying a Chicago city sticker because the pea’s are definitely going to run the plates first to verify city residency. I’d hate to loose any tax revenue that may be spent on the mag mile or LP, via pissing off the non-resident customers with bogus city sticker tickets.
That’s just Prime! The first vehicles hit should be the ones in the Chicago Police Dept. parking lots around the city. We all know they have their cars up to date. Second CTA employee parking lots. Third anybody else, up for grabs!
HJ…for the your benefit…since you seem to be slow today.
I’ve said it before and I’ll do it one more time…
Revenue PEA’s are required to have a plate run before they can issue that Ticket for a car with No Sticker at all…..unless the driver is dumb enough to leave mail on the dash board with an address we can physically read.
DoR Employee Says
“unless the driver is dumb enough to leave mail on the dash board with an address we can physically read”
I am sure DoR is only joking about that, since that cannot be used as a determining factor. What can be used is the following: Last year’s sticker, a plate check, or an annual rpp sticker affixed to the window (this one should be eliminated with the new combined stickers)
I am all prepared to do my part in erasing the budget gap on Thursday, so please stand in line and get that sticker.
Oh an Optimus:
CPD inspectors have been crawling through the CPD parking lots looking for violators. CPD/CFD gets an automatic 14day unpaid vacation if they are busted for not having a city sticker.
Would you think that these new city stickers that have a the barcodes will make writing tickets faster because they can scan info to a parking ticket handheld, faster? Scan ticket, Scan Ticket.
Yes TM…I was being sarcastic….was having a knee-jerk reaction to stupidity….mea culpa.
It will be a great day for revenue monkeys all across Daley’s wild kingdom. As always, they will take the greatest of care to uphold the City of Chicago’s Parking Bill of Rights. Thank you revenue monkeys…for your service to this great city! =)
“DoR Employee Says:
HJ…for the your benefit…since you seem to be slow today.”
“DoR Employee Says:
Yes TM…I was being sarcastic….was having a knee-jerk reaction to stupidity….mea culpa.”
“DoR Employee Says: DoR Employee Says:
Department of Revenue employees are not conventional civilians.”
Well now that last comment makes sense to me. Most of us conventional civilians learned manners during the elementary school years. Unconventional indeed.
HJ……
RE: Manners
I HAVE to be polite on duty.
Off duty I can tell you to kiss my hairy a$$.
I received a ticket today for “no city sticker/improperly displayed”… I used to live Chicago but now live at my parents. I have proof of the Elmhurst Sticker purchased prior to the ticket, mail to the elmhurst residence, drivers license, and registration. Is this enought to contest?
also, my old chicago sticker from last year was in the window… but that shouldn’t matter right?