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Loyola Park Quietly Begins Offering Monthly Parking Passes to Public

By Benjamin Woodard | September 11, 2014 5:23am
 Only a handful of spots appear to be available each month out of 112 spaces between Lunt and Greenleaf avenues at Loyola Park.
Only a handful of spots appear to be available each month out of 112 spaces between Lunt and Greenleaf avenues at Loyola Park.
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ROGERS PARK — In a parking crunch? The Chicago Park District might be able to help.

This year, the district quietly began selling parking passes at Loyola Park's lot between Lunt and Greenleaf avenues — for $129 a month.

Interested Rogers Park parkers have to act fast, however, because it appears only a handufl of spaces are available each month, according to a review of the Park District's parking website.

Spaces can be claimed online through 2016. This month's spaces are sold out, according to the website.

Park District spokeswoman Jessica Maxey-Faulkner wouldn't say how many spaces the district had sold this year, but the program was instated after residents requested it. She said there are a total of 112 spaces in the lot.

From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., parking costs $1.25 an hour. Usually, overnight parking at Chicago parks costs 50 cents an hour, but an $89,000-a-year agreement struck with Ald. Joe Moore (49th) in 2009 has kept parking free for residents from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. at Loyola Park.

Moore said he recently renewed that agreement.

The monthly parking now available at Loyola Park is less expensive than the monthly parking that will be offered for $150 at Col. Jennifer Pritzker's parking garage, which is under construction down the block.

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