That's $263M in Chicago-zip tickets + late fees, plus $4.4M boots and $13.9M tows (75% of citywide tow billings — IL-plate share verified at 75.3% in FOIA F136267), divided by the 883,240 Chicago plates that got at least one ticket in a year (FOIA F118906 + F136386). 93% of Chicago tickets go uncontested. Autopilot Pro helps you avoid 90% of the ticket burden — every late fee wiped, renewal reminders for your city sticker and plate, plus car monitoring for cameras, meters, street cleaning, permit zones, and snow (and we contest anything that slips through). See the full math.
Auto-detects where you parked (Bluetooth on Android, motion sensors on iOS) and watches the rules for that block. You get push + email warnings before the sweeper ($60), a 2" snow ban ($60 + ~$250+ tow), the 3–7 AM winter overnight ban ($60), a permit zone without a sticker ($75), the block's paid-parking hours kicking in while you're away from the car, or an expired meter ($50–$70) — plus city-sticker and plate-renewal deadlines before they become tickets.
Chicago billed drivers $204M in camera tickets a year. We play background voice alerts through CarPlay and Android Auto before you trigger a $35–$100 speed camera or a $100red-light camera — works with the phone locked.
Get a ticket anyway? We pull Street View photos of your actual signage, cross-reference weather records, attach any FOIA responses we've gotten back from City agencies, and USPS-mail a real defense letter before the city's deadline — every time. Zero forms. No phone calls. No hearings to show up to. 59% of mail-in contests win. (All decided mail hearings, 2023–2025 — cameras included, and they win far less than parking tickets do.)
Chicago towed 81,000 cars in 2024. We check the city tow database every 30 minutesand ping you within the hour if your plate shows up — so you stop paying storage fees before the second day even starts.
Chicago schedules street cleaning by section — a block of streets bounded by four named streets — and each section has its own dates. Browse all 825 sections and their 2026 cleaning days, or start with your ward.