The machine needs fuel to run…
Top-to-bottom corruption in Chicago is nothing new, but witness this marvel of parking gestapo-dom (yes, Godwin’s law invoked..):
This sign was not posted at 11:30 on the night preceding the taking of this picture:
At that time, this Civic was already parked (likely a local resident). This driver’s complete inability to have known about the pending street cleaning didn’t prevent the reception of a ticket:
One has to wonder if this comes from individual spite or some sort of systemic malady that merely presents itself as abject corruption.