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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

It’s worth a try if there’s any chance at all to overturn bad deals on parking meters, Skyway

Juan Gallardo of Chicago parks at a privatized parking meter on Lake Street in 2013. (Rich Hein~Sun-Times)

The sell-offs of Chicago’s parking meters, Skyway and parking garages are millstones around the city’s neck. It’s time to take another shot at undoing these bad deals.

It’s not as if the city would be stiffing anyone. The private entities have already gotten their money back, with more than tidy profits besides. But if no one acts, city residents and visitors will be digging deep in their pockets for decades to pay for deals that never should have been made in the first place.

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