Residents hoping to cash in on a World Series at Wrigley Field are selling their residential parking passes online, but if they’re caught it will cost them.<\/p>\n
A Craigslist post that was put up on Tuesday morning offered six parking permits for Wrigleyville. They’re going for $200 for all\u00a0six or $60 individually, and the seller said the parking is just “blocks away” from the park.<\/p>\n
“Parking will be super expensive now,” the poster wrote on Craigslist.<\/p>\n
The only issue? It’s illegal to resell residential daily parking permits, and fines range from $200-$500, according to the city’s municipal code.<\/p>\n
Pat Corcoran, a spokesman for the City Clerk’s Office, said the office has ticketed people who resell permits and it can revoke people’s ability to buy permits from the city. He couldn’t comment on if anyone has been ticketed for reselling permits during this Cubs\u00a0postseason, but he said people have been ticketed during past Cubs postseasons.<\/p>\n
“We check Craigslist, we do occasionally do stings in conjunction with the Police Department,” Corcoran said.<\/p>\n
But once those permits go from a reseller to a customer, there’s little the office can do, Corcoran said. Officials could use numbers on the permits to track if the right people are using them, but that wouldn’t be a good use of time, Corcoran said.<\/p>\n
The Craigslist post on Tuesday afternoon had been “flagged for removal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Residents hoping to cash in on a World Series at Wrigley Field are selling their residential parking passes online, but if they’re caught it will cost them. A Craigslist post that was put up on Tuesday morning offered six parking permits for Wrigleyville. They’re going for $200 for all\u00a0six or $60 individually, and the seller … Continue reading If You Sell Your Wrigleyville Parking Permit, You Might Never Get One Again<\/span>