Chicago area parking?

[RTillery]

I am moving my daughter back to Chicago to go to shool in a couple of weeks.



I will be pulling my small single axle utility trailer and I would like to find a place to leave it for a few days. I have never been in the Chicago/Lincoln Park area. Can anyone give me an idea of how parking is around there, and are there any places I might leave this thing for a few days? I do have a big chain to tie it to a light pole or something.



If I can dump the trailer, I plan on just parking my PU on the street close to her apartment. Is the Lincoln Park area OK to do that in?

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

[KevinO]

i have a friend that lives close to water tower i can ask him for you. I just went to see him and only saw a handful of full size pickups driving on the streets. Parking is a great commodity up there, his parking space inside the condo he is leasing sells for 30k on top of the price of buying the condo.

 

[jkalchik]

Lincoln Park is generally a pretty nice area, but parking will be TIGHT.



On a side note, you don't want to get on the freeway express lanes with a pickup. IL's rules require pickups to have commercial plates and commercial vehicles aren't allowed in express lanes or on boulevards.

 

[RTillery]

I am coming in from Colorado and will try to get rid of the little trailer somewhere. When you say commercial vehicles are not allowed on boulevards, what does that mean? Am I going to have trouble getting around on the local streets. My daughter is moving into about 500 Oakdale just north of Diversey(sp?). Thanks for the info guys!

 

[jkalchik]

Jeez... ... traffic in that neck of the woods is fugly, IMHO. I expect you'll have great difficulties finding a place to park. Unfortunately, I really don't have a good place to stash a trailer for a few days either.



With out of state plates, you can probably plead ignorance to the friendly LEO who may stop you on Lake Shore Drive, or any of the other boulevards in the city, as well as the freeway express lanes. A friend of mine got stopped with MI plates a number of years ago. No commercial vehicles allowed means exactly that.



You'll want to make sure you've got a good city map, or a GPS with Chicago street detail loaded. Avoiding boulevards will require you to take different routes, but it is doable.