ParkChicago

Complete rip off

I started to create a profile and never been able to use it . It charged me 20$ meanwhile i never been able to pass that contact information page . After saving it, the app sends me to the pin page which I already set up . Very bad app

Glanced at the reviews, saw a good rating, downloaded it, to create an account I had to add $20 to wallet. Didn’t like that so I didn’t do it, went back to read the reviews, thank God I did. Don’t pay anything in here. I dodged a bullet .

This app is dishonest and looking to scam you. If payment is required 2 minutes later, they will just show “no payment required” and then just give you a $100 ticket 15 mins later. Absolutely leeches on society

This app will absolutely allow you to park in a very real zone that is say (as was my case) not available to park between 5am and 2 am. Aka you can only park there three hours a day. The app took my money in this zone and then I got towed. The city got paid twice. Planning to report it to my card company as fraud.

The Best!

money hungry

Since the last update it won’t enter, forcing me to have to use the parking booths on the street

I think most of these positive 5-star reviews are fake. There is no way this app gets 5 stars. First of all, this is the only parking app that requires you to preload $20. Then, it requires you to reload if your balance gets down to $10. So you can never use the full amount you paid. With every other parking app I have used in the Chicago area and in other cities, you can just pay for your one time parking event without being forced to preload more cash than you’ll use. AND in any account experience that lets you reload, they typically let you set the parameters for when you want to preload and how much. I suppose technically they let you do that, but you can only change the amounts to be higher than their presets, not lower. This is a stand-out in the worst way. Feels like a scam. They should have an option for “visitors” to the city who just want to pay as they go. You can still do that by finding the kiosk on the sidewalk instead of using the app, which is what I ended up doing because this app was shady as ****. Also, in reading some other reviews, it seems like people are getting parking tickets with not negligible frequency even when they do pay!! Scam!

Used to be able to pay per use via the app but now it forces you to pre-load AT LEAST $20. For a $2.00 spot so you can keep the extra 18? Yeah no. Deleting this scam app. Guess I will have to pay the box from now on, so much for modern convenience.