Chicago overcharging on parking tickets

Chicago is a city of grifters who elect con artists to govern them.

Stories such as this one should not be surprising to you.

From CBS Chicago:

You park, you pay, you stay too long, you expect to get a ticket. If that happens in most neighborhoods, the ticket is supposed to be cheaper than what you’d pay downtown.
However, the city has issued thousands of parking fines to drivers outside of the city’s central business district as if they’d parked downtown.

However, the city has issued thousands of parking fines to drivers outside of the city’s central business district as if they’d parked downtown.

In the central business district, a ticket for an expired meter will cost you $65. In the rest of the city, the fine is supposed to be $50.

However, self-described data geek Matt Chapman discovered otherwise. "What I’m finding is that there are many many parking tickets being given outside of downtown as if they were parking downtown," he said.

The overcharge exceeds $450,000.

Chicago is the only major American city losing population.