Cash Grab Tickets
Our friends over at The Contrarian notice something that the rest of the media ignored during the election:
With little fanfare, the Chicago City Council took a break last week from attempting to ban gas stoves, bravely denouncing hate speech, and other empty virtue signaling, and voted on October 30 to reduce the citywide speed limit from 30 to 25 mph. Despite the huge impact this ordinance will have on Chicago residents, it has received surprisingly little press coverage. Perhaps the Chicago media were more focused on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed $300 million property tax increase, or his appointment of disbarred anti-Semitic attorney Reverend Mitchell Johnson as president of the Chicago Board of Education (disbarred for taking money from his client).
The ordinance takes effect on January 1, 2026.
We (and many others) rightly called this a cash grab, despite stringent denials from City Hall and Conehead. But The Contrarian points out how a simple reduction in speeding fines would potentially generate tens-of-millions, if not a hundred-plus-million in short order.
Go read it all and be amazed at efforts to alter your fine based on your income tax return.
And then go read this article from the Illinois Policy people about ticket inequity:
- Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued the most tickets per intersection during the 12 months through September, more than 2.5 times as many as red-light monitored intersections on the North Side.
- Red-light cameras on the South Side issued an average 9,132 tickets between October last year and September 2024, or 5,521 more tickets than each camera on the North Side.
Despite the high volume of tickets per intersection on the South Side, drivers on the North Side were issued nearly 100,000 more tickets worth nearly $10 million more than the South Side fines.
North Side drivers were issued more than $16.2 million in red-light tickets. The North Side has 45 of the city’s 150 red-light monitored intersections, while the South Side has seven.
West Side drivers incurred the next most tickets, with red-light cameras at 33 monitored intersections issuing nearly $14.2 million in fines.
We're going to guess the West Side has the lowest rate of paying though, as many plates aren't even registered to actual mailing addresses.
Labels: city politics, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
13 Comments:
That's been a money grabber since day one.
Chicago is bad, Rosemont is worse.
They all suck.
Is this a misprint?
The ordinance takes effect on January 1, 2026.
Sooooo, we get a full year to feel good about Ourselves for lowering Emissions and avoiding serious auto crashes and then Everybody forgets about it and it gets repealed
I rip through that red light camera on Belmont / Knox all the time going to work these days. Tired of getting a $100 ticket for being 2mph over the speed limit. Tired of the tax paying neighborhoods being shaken down all the time it’s exploitation it’s theft when it isn’t equal across the board. That’s why I have phantom plate covers they work beautifully. Best $60 I ever spent.
North Side drivers were issued more than $16.2 million in red-light tickets. The North Side has 45 of the city’s 150 red-light monitored intersections, while the South Side has seven.
West Side drivers incurred the next most tickets, with red-light cameras at 33 monitored intersections issuing nearly $14.2 million in fines.
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I am not understanding the math. I count 85. Where are the rest, the 65?
The only people that pay these fines are the same people that pay for gas, electric and water. It's racist
If the ‘people’ are subjected to more traffic light violations and Red Light fines, it has nothing to do with their skin tone-it’s because they don’t know the Rules of the Road. They might know them to obtain a license (yeah, right), but they regularly disregard every traffic law knowing that their tickets will be dismissed in the name of ‘hardship, social justice or zip code poverty reform.’
It’s always like this. They do it in other ways too. I noticed on my street alone, they put up 6 additional no parking “from here” signs that eat up about two car lengths each- making a neighborhood with no parking already more deficient.
Guess people will now start zooming through the side streets and disregard all Stop signs.
I've always said that north siders do not drive as well as normal people.
They’re determined to make Shitcago completely unlivable.
Does not sound very diverse, equitable, or inclusive. Or is dei just an excuse to target white people? Did I miss that at seminar?
Let’s get Elon to cut the city budget if no one else in the city can do it
Those numbers look like crime statistics numbers reversed. No $ to be made on the south and west sides.
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