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bobbyw24
10-30-2009, 05:18 AM
Which Chicago ward gets the most parking tickets?

October 28, 2009
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

Nearly 193,000 parking tickets were issued during the first eight months of this year in Chicago’s showcase 42nd Ward, which includes downtown and the Gold Coast. That’s 35 percent more tickets than the next-highest ward.

Tougher to explain is the fact that 11 of the top wards on the boot list are majority black wards. The city has long insisted that boot crews are color-blind and “cover all areas equitably.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1851028,chicago-parking-tickets-boots-102809.article

Ethek
10-30-2009, 06:05 AM
I wonder what correlation of people that recieve tickets are also reciving public assitance of some kind. The 'culture of entitlement' discussed might play here. If so the important question is what causes this?