Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicago's parking meters have been sold to another private company. The Johnson administration considered buying the meters back, ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the city is not, in fact, going to buy back the 36,000 parking meters it sold to a private company 18 years ago. However, a change in ownership could still be on its ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday the city will not try to buy back Chicago’s parking meters after all, following days of speculation over whether he would attempt to find a way out of an infamous ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said his administration would not seek to buy back Chicago's parking meters, after weighing an attempt to get out of what he called "the worst deal in the history of ...

Parking downtown at a meter spot costs $7 an hour, up from $3 an hour when the city owned the parking meters 17 years ago. In what has been called a disastrous, lopsided 75-year deal, then-Mayor ...

Nearly two decades after a $1.15 billion deal privatized Chicago’s parking meters, a window has opened to seize the valuable asset back from private investors. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration ...

Reader question: I have noticed that the city of Green Bay parking meters have slots for credit cards. I have also tried to use my credit card in them and they do not work. Why is the slot there when ...

Frederick is getting rid of its parking meters and requiring usage of an app, ParkMobile, for on-street parking starting in February. “Starting February 9, the City of Frederick Parking Department ...

In 2008, Chicago's mayor decided lease out the city's metered parking system — to privatize all 36,000 of its parking meters. Planet Money's Nick Fountain reports.

EASTON — Meter and parking permit enforcement in Easton will be on hold until March, the town announced this week. You must be logged in to react. Click any reaction to login. You must be logged in to ...

RED LION, Pa. — New parking meters placed outside a popular dining spot in Red Lion have created quite a stir. The parking meters were placed near Franklin Street Social and are causing customers ...

In 2008, Chicago's mayor decided to lease out the city's metered parking system — to privatize all 36,000 of its parking meters. Recently, there have been a variety of proposals to privatize things ...