Please Note: Online sales are temporarily unavailable pending the start of the 2013-2014 City Vehicle Sticker Sales Season.
Until further notice, all stickers, permits & licenses must be purchased at a City Clerk Office.

About Residential Parking

Find Your Parking Zone

Use the Zone Look-Up Tool to determine whether or not a Chicago address is in a residential parking zone, and if so, which zone number.

The purpose of residential zone parking is to limit parking on designated streets in densely-populated or highly-trafficked areas to residents and their guests only, for either all times or for certain days/hours.

Vehicles parked in a residential parking zone during applicable days/hours must display a City Vehicle Sticker with Annual Residential Zone Parking or an unexpired Daily Residential Parking Permit. The zone number on either the City Vehicle Sticker or the Daily Residential Parking Permit must match the permit number posted on the street signs.

Please Note:

In order to purchase Daily Residential Parking Permits, eligibility requirements must be met, including proving residency at an address in a Residential Parking Zone.

Daily Residential Parking Permits are valid for 24 hours, from the time entered on the permit, for the residential zone number indicated on the permit. They must be displayed on the lower passenger side corner of the windshield. Daily Residential Parking Permits expire on June 30th of each year and are sold in books of 15, with a 2-book minimum purchase for online transactions.

Eligibility to Purchase

In order to purchase Daily Residential Parking Permits either online or in-person, both of the following eligibility requirements must be met.

  1. Current residency at the address must be proved in one of the following ways:
    • Purchase of a 2012-2013 City Vehicle Sticker for a vehicle listed at the same household (purchased either online or in-person)

      OR

    • In-person Purchase of Daily Residential Parking Permits after April 23, 2012 at any City Clerk office location. (This requires proof of residency – see below.)
  2. No permits purchased by the household in the previous 30 days. Only 2 sets (30 permits) of Daily Residential Parking Permits can be purchased per address in a 30-day period.

Proving Residency In-Person

To prove current residency within a Residential Parking Zone, the purchaser must visit a City Clerk office and present at the time of purchase:

  • A valid Driver’s License or State ID showing a home address within the residential zone OR
  • Valid Driver’s license or State ID for any address that is not the home address, and one of the following that lists the purchaser’s address within the residential zone:
    • Current mortgage or lease
    • Water, tax, gas, or electric bill
    • Chicago voter registration card

The Annual Residential Parking Permit is a feature that can be added to a City Vehicle Sticker at time of purchase. This feature costs just $25 and provides residential zone parking privileges for as long as the City Vehicle Sticker is valid.

A sticker with Annual Residential Parking feature can only be purchased by a resident who lives at an address that is located within a residential parking zone for passenger vehicle, large passenger vehicle or small truck. (Not sure what type of vehicle you have? See our Pricing/Model page.)

Proving Residency

If purchasing online on EZ>Buy, no proof or residency or other documentation is required to include the Residential Parking Permit feature on a sticker being purchased.

If purchasing at a sales location, the purchaser must prove current residency within the Residential Parking Zone by presenting at the time of purchase:

A Valid Driver’s License or State ID for any address that is not the home address, and one of the following that lists the purchaser’s address within the residential zone:

  • Current mortgage or lease
  • Chicago voter registration card
  • A bill for any of the following utilities / services / fees: property tax; water, gas, or electric bill; land line phone; satellite or cable television bill. (Please note that a cell phone bill is not an acceptable form of a phone bill.)

How to Get the Residential Parking Zone Feature

If you have a City Vehicle Sticker already and need to add the Annual Residential Zone Parking feature, or your City Vehicle Sticker already has a zone number but you recently moved to a new residence in a different new zone, you can buy a new city sticker with the zone feature that you want at a discounted rate by doing the following:

  • Remove the old City Vehicle sticker (regardless of its condition)
  • Bring the old city sticker (along with proof of residency, see above) to a City Clerk office

If you need to change the zone number on your sticker, the cost is $10.00

Pricing for Annual and Daily Residential Parking Permits

Type (Date Range) April 23, 2012 through November 30, 2012 December 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013 April 1, 2013 through May 31, 2013
Annual (RP)
Proof of Residency Required		 $25.00 $16.50 $8.25
15 Daily Passes (RPD)
Proof of Residency Required		 $8.00 $8.00 $8.00