Life in "Progress" City

Aaaahhh, life in the city, can you hear the buzz?

Oh, that's people bashing the parking meters.

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Chicagoans are so frustrated with broken parking meters and high costs, some are vandalizing the meters.

They are taking more of your quarters every day. And Chicagoans are in revolt. While some are saying enough by avoiding them, others are taking out their frustrations on the parking meters - literally! CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports with the anger behind the new meter rate increases.

Near Broadway and Addison, meter after meter are broken.

"I called the company and I said I don't want a ticket," one woman said.

LAZ is a Chicago company which collects the money for the New York owner which paid the city $1.2 billion to lease the city's 36,000 meters for 75 years. They've pasted new stickers on them, doubled the rates to as much as a quarter for five minutes in the Loop. That's $3 an hour to $2 an hour in many other neighborhoods. People are angry.

That's funny, out here in Redville, I've never seen a parking meter.

What's so damn "progressive" about parking tickets?

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