Chicago Parking Meters LLC

Weiner's Circle crusader Danaka joins me on the most Chicago-ey episode ever recorded in BBB history! Do you feel unbridled rage at the sight of another person taking YOUR parking spot? Are YOU still looking for parking in the loop at this moment? Does the show Seinfeld resonate a little too much with you? This is the perfect episode to turn on while you look for a fire hydrant to park in front of. Throughout this episode, I was double fisting a whiskey ginger ale and a hot matcha latte. That's kind of the energy we brought to the booth. 

Anyways, come with us on a journey behind the worst business deal anybody has ever made. Not to be too one-sided or anything, it's just that no one with any defensible journalistic or business credentials has sided with Mayor Daley on this one. Have no idea what I'm talking about? Tap in to this all-Chicago episode of complete and utter buffoonery, replete with a book that completely changed my worldview! I'm serious!

Thanks for listening, and be sure to follow Danaka's writing on Substack! Linked here: https://danaka.substack.com/

Patreon is as always patreon.com/bustedbizbureau - I turned off payments for a buncha months in a row, but am finally on the creative horse again. Yippeee!!!

SOURCES: 

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, was (as mentioned many times!) the main source of information throughout this episode. I bought it at Unabridged Bookstore :) Link here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634461/paved-paradise-by-henry-grabar/

2. Chicago's parking drama is covered in chapter 8 of Paved Paradise, which itself owes a lot of sourcing to Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke's reporting in the Chicago Reader over the alderman-ey drama. "FAIL, Part One: Chicago’s Parking Meter Lease Deal" linked here: https://chicagoreader.com/news/fail-part-one-chicagos-parking-meter-lease-deal/

3. Propublica Illinois and Mother Jones collab'ed on an article about poor Chicagoans saddling the main burden of traffic ticket debt. "How Does Chicago Make $200 Million A Year On Parking Tickets? By Bankrupting Thousands of Drivers." I accidentally said this was from 2023 in the podcast, but it is actually 2018. Don't ever listen to a word I say. Linked here: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2018/02/how-does-chicago-make-200-million-a-year-on-parking-tickets-by-bankrupting-thousands-of-drivers/

4. Uelricht v Chicago Parking Meters LLC as very thoroughly documented on Clime Case Chart, linked here: https://climatecasechart.com/case/uetricht-v-chicago-parking-meters-llc/. Most of the complaints/motions/etc live here

5. Judge Diane Pamela Wood's opinion on the matter, quoted in the pod, linked here: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/22-1166/22-1166-2023-04-07.html