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Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, also known as ParkChicago, [1] is an American company [2] with several investors [3] that owns the parking meters in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The company has gained notoriety for its roots in the sale of the City of Chicago's parking meters to private investors, considered a financial disaster for the city.
Chicago’s much-maligned parking meter privatization deal could soon be costing the city even more money. Chicago Parking Meters, the private company with a monopoly on the city’s paid street ...
In Chicago, a controversial 2008 deal ramrodded through city council by former mayor Richard M. Daley sold 36,000 parking meters to Morgan Stanley for more than $1 billion; today, public employees ...
Consumers' Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services (doing business as Consumers’ CHECKBOOK) is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization.It was founded in 1974 [1] in order to provide survey information to consumers about vendors and service providers.
United States v. Vehicular Parking Ltd. [1] is a patent–antitrust case in which the United States Government eroded the doctrine of United States v. General Electric Co. [2] permitting patentees to fix licensee prices, but failed to persuade the court to decree royalty-free licensing as a remedy.
The City of Columbus has put signs on parking meters in some areas in Franklinton, including this one in front of the Idea Foundry, 421 W. State St., warning motorists that the meters will soon be ...
Pay and display systems differ from road-side parking meters in that one machine can service multiple vehicle spaces, resulting in lower set up costs. In addition, this system theoretically prevents drivers from taking advantage of parking meters that have time remaining; this factor alone has doubled parking revenues in cities that have switched to pay and display. [1]
The QR codes, which appear to be connected to a 'quishing' scam, were found on about 150 parking meters along the Esplanade and in the Riviera Village area, police said.