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“Access to government offices, hospitals and hotels cannot be impeded by illegal parking, including metered spaces,” states the letter signed by Jennie Huang Bennett, the city’s chief financial officer. “Police, fire and other first responders performing essential public safety functions cannot be hampered in their duties due to any type of illegal parking in these zones.” In effect, City Hall was suggesting that a vehicle parked at a paid meter was safer than a car parked at an unpaid one.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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For years I would do 10-15 business dinners downtown each year costing hundreds of dollars and sometimes thousands each and put up with paying exorbitant parking, food and liquor taxes. Not any more. Haven’t had a big expensive business or personal dinner down there in two years. I feel sorry for the restaurant owners and workers, but my colleagues and I just gave up on being taken advantage of. And if you ask anyone in the suburbs lately, almost 100 percent of them will say they don’t go down at all for exactly the same reasons. Truly tragic what the… Read more »
Legal extortion.
Someone has to pay for Million dollar pensions at age 45.
Suckers who live in Illinois will pay, pay, pay.
Not going to stop anytime soon, only going to get worse.
Droning again! See my earlier response of a minute ago.
I remember when this first happened. My wife and I were parking downtown, for a doctor’s visit. I said to her, “Remember yesterday when Lori said that they wouldn’t ticket cars, unless it was for a “safety reason?” She nodded, and I said, “I won’t DARE not pay this meter. If I know this city, they will still ticket everybody anyway. You know why? Because this is exactly how they treat businesses here — they say one thing and then play “GOTCHA” to get their money.” So we paid the meter. We came out about an hour later, and walked… Read more »