"ĭuring the period Monaco received the dismissed ticket again and again, she was also still waiting for her refund check. The Ticket was scanned into the system on. But somehow, the ticket got resurrected and sent to her again in January with a reminder in mid-February.Ī DOF spokesperson told us how Monaco's dismissed ticket came back to life: "The handwritten ticket had not yet been scanned into the system prior to its dismissal. She got the ticket tossed with a promise to be refunded $175 for the tow and storage fee she had to pay to get her car back. One week after she found her car at the city auto pound, Monaco contested the ticket in court and won. Streets and San calls incidents like Monaco's bogus ticket and wrong tow a "rare occurrence." The Department of Streets and Sanitation added that of those 388,000+ handwritten tickets, more than 23,000 were written by city tow truck drivers. More than 388,000 of those were written by hand, mostly by CPD enforcement officers who still use ticket books. Meanwhile, the city Department of Finance provided us figures detailing how many device-generated parking tickets versus handwritten tickets were issued in Chicago in 2021 - more than 1.8 million parking tickets combined. time for violating the overnight parking ban? All made up. The Department of Streets and Sanitation admitted to CBS 2 that their "tow truck driver towed the vehicle in error." And, the handwritten parking ticket with the 12:30 a.m. Monaco says she was angry, because "the ticket itself says that the issue date was 12/06 which is Monday not Sunday night, and that the time of violation is 12:30." She said this happened "even though I was already towed" by 11:15 - 45 minutes before midnight - when she left her friend's place to go home. It had a ticket on it that said she was parked legally after midnight. It turned out her car was in the City of Chicago Central Auto Pound, 400 E. Monaco did all of those things before midnight when the "no parking, tow zone" rule took effect. Ultimately, she called 911 to report her car stolen and then filed a police report. She called private towing companies and the city tow information line to find her car – but found there was no proof of her car being towed. – but when she went to get her car at 11:15 p.m., it was gone. The truth behind the tow: 'Chicago stole my car that night'Ĭhrissy Monaco visits a friend in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood often, so she's well aware of the sign warning of no overnight parking from 12 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) - In 2022, the CBS 2 Investigators uncovered new revelations on issues from protecting consumers from rogue towing companies to protecting children in the state's care, and we even revisited a 40-year-old murder mystery in Chicago that remains unsolved.Īs we close the books on the year, we wanted to take a moment to focus on why what we do matters.
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