Parking in Chicago = one of the most frustrating things ever! There are a few reasons for this: a) It's expensive and b) sometimes you have to walk really far because the only garage or spot available was not anywhere near your final destination.
Mark and I recently went downtown for about 3.5 hours and it cost us $35 to park. Isn't that ridiculous! Sure, you can try to find street parking, rather than parking in a garage, but usually everyone has the same idea, so you end up circling and circling the streets with no luck.
I have a website that might help you. It's called Spothero.com. Mark heard about this website on the news, and we used it yesterday for the first time. It worked great!
Here's how it works:
You go to spothero.com or you download their free app for your cell phone. We did it via the website. All you do is type in the address of where you are going (we were going to lunch at Pizano's so we typed in their address) and it will give you a list of garages and the price. We found a garage that was 1.3 blocks away for only $9.00 - and we parked there for 3 hours! Can you believe it?? What a great deal! The nice thing about it is your spot is reserved so not only are you getting discounted parking, but you don't have to worry about finding a garage or a spot. The garage we chose was next to a hotel so the garage actually said it was "Full," but our instructions told us if the garage says "Full" then to push the call button upon entering and tell the attendant you are a SpotHero customer and they will let you in. We followed those instructions and were let in without a problem.
Just make sure you either print out your confirmation email or you are able to pull it up on your phone, because they will need to see this to give you the special rate.
This website is something you can use at the last minute as well - we didn't think of it until we were about 20 minutes from our destination. Everything was processed within a matter of minutes and we were good to go!
I'm glad we tried this and intend to use this website whenever we need to go to the city!
--T
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