Sure, the Dan Ryan — or Kennedy or Eisenhower or Stevenson — can be a parking lot. But the cherry on that urban headache can be finding a real parking garage near a downtown Chicago destination.
Now a new Web site, www.ChicagoParkingMap.com, developed by the Parking Industry Labor Management Council, can help drivers ease the pain a bit and locate a convenient spot where they can put themselves into park.
Michael Prussian, chairman of the council, representing garage owners and their union employees, said Monday, “The Web site helps people find the parking garage closest to where they are going. They can then go directly to the garage and not have to circle the block.”
The Web site provides the skinny on about 190 downtown garages with 25,000 parking slots. The site includes more than 90 percent of downtown Chicago garages.
At the site, drivers select the address where they’re headed or a building name from a drop-down box to generate a map with parking garages. Click on a garage, and information pops up about the garage, including whether it is attendant or self-park, hours of operation, location of entrances and which credit cards are accepted. There also are links to garage owners’ Web pages, where consumers can check for coupons or find other information, such as whether a garage can accommodate over-sized vehicles.
The maps cover parking garages in an area bounded by Roosevelt Road on the south, Division Street on the north, Halsted Avenue on the west and the lakefront on the east.
Driving directions to the garages also are available.
Prussian said the organization next plans to add photos of garage entrances to help drivers identify garages.
Now a new Web site, www.ChicagoParkingMap.com, developed by the Parking Industry Labor Management Council, can help drivers ease the pain a bit and locate a convenient spot where they can put themselves into park.
Michael Prussian, chairman of the council, representing garage owners and their union employees, said Monday, “The Web site helps people find the parking garage closest to where they are going. They can then go directly to the garage and not have to circle the block.”
The Web site provides the skinny on about 190 downtown garages with 25,000 parking slots. The site includes more than 90 percent of downtown Chicago garages.
At the site, drivers select the address where they’re headed or a building name from a drop-down box to generate a map with parking garages. Click on a garage, and information pops up about the garage, including whether it is attendant or self-park, hours of operation, location of entrances and which credit cards are accepted. There also are links to garage owners’ Web pages, where consumers can check for coupons or find other information, such as whether a garage can accommodate over-sized vehicles.
The maps cover parking garages in an area bounded by Roosevelt Road on the south, Division Street on the north, Halsted Avenue on the west and the lakefront on the east.
Driving directions to the garages also are available.
Prussian said the organization next plans to add photos of garage entrances to help drivers identify garages.
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