Alternate-Side Parking Rules and Exempt Streets

The Village's Alternate-Side Parking Program is in effect from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,  seven days a week, after a snow accumulation of at least two inches. The snow removal program is a minimum two-day operation. On even-numbered days of the month, all vehicles must be moved to the side of the street with even-numbered addresses. On odd-numbered days of the month all vehicles must be moved to the side of the street with odd numbered addresses.

Click here to see ways to learn if alternate-side parking is in effect.

The Village has certain streets that are exempt from the program on Saturdays, Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.  These streets include:
  • Birchwood Avenue: 4600 block
  • Bronx Avenue : 8800, 8900, 9000, 9100 blocks
  • Carol Street: 4800, 4900, 5000 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Central Park Avenue: 8000, 8100 blocks
  • Cleveland Street: 3300, 3400, 4600 and 4700 blocks
  • Conrad Street: 4800, 4900 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Crain Street: 4800, 4900, 5000 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Davis Street: 4600, 4700, 4800, 4900, 5000, 5100 blocks
  • Dobson Street: 4700 block
  • Elm Street: 4800 block
  • Enfield Avenue: 4800, 4900, 5000, 5100 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Greenleaf Street: 4800 block
  • Greenwood Street: 4800, 4900, 5000 and 5100 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Grove Street: 4700, 4800, 4900, 5000, 5100 blocks (to Terminal Avenue)
  • Hull Street: 4800 and 4900 blocks
  • Jarvis Street: 3800, 3900 blocks
  • Karlov Avenue: 7900 block
  • Keating Avenue: 8000, 8100, 8200, 8300, 9000, 9100 and 9200 blocks
  • Kedvale Avenue: 7900 block
  • Keeney Avenue: 4600, 4700 blocks
  • Kilpatrick Avenue: 8000, 8100, 8200 to 8350. 9100, 9200 blocks
  • Kimball Avenue: 8300 block
  • Kirk Street: 4800, 4900 blocks
  • Knox Avenue: 7600, 8000, 8100, 8200, 8300 blocks
  • LaCrosse Avenue: 7900, 8850, 8900, 9000, 9100 blocks
  • Lamon Avenue: 7800, 7900, 8850, 8900, 9000, 9100 blocks
  • Lavergne Avenue: 8900, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, 9500 blocks
  • Lawler Avenue: 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, 9500 blocks
  • Lee Street: 4800 block
  • Long Avenue: 7800, 7900, 8000, 8100, 8200 blocks
  • Louise Street: 4800, 4900 blocks
  • Madison Street: 4600, 4700 blocks
  • Monticello Avenue: 8000, 8100 blocks
  • Mulford Street: 4800, 4900, 5400, 5500 blocks
  • Niles Avenue: 7750, 7800, 7900 blocks
  • Ridgeway Avenue: 8000, 8100 blocks
  • St. Louis Avenue: 8300, 8600, 8700 blocks
  • Suffield Terrace: 5000 block
  • Trumbull Avenue: 8600, 8700 blocks
  • Washington Street: 4600, 4700 blocks
  • Wright Terrace: 4800 block

Roadway Jurisdictions & Alternate Side Parking Exempt Streets

Not all streets are owned or maintained by the Village of Skokie, some are the responsibilities of the Cook County Highway department, or the Illinois Department of Transportation. Any streets not owned or maintained by Skokie are exempt from the Village's Alternate Side Parking Program.

Map

View a Map of Street Jurisdictions (PDF).

Skokie is Responsible For

  • All side streets in Skokie, as well as all alleys
  • Gross Point Road (Main Street to Church Street)
  • Howard Street (New Gross Point to East border)
  • Main Street (border to border)
  • Niles Center (Dempster Street to Skokie Boulevard.)
  • Niles Center (Lincoln Avenue to Main Street)
  • Oakton Street (from Long Avenue to Skokie Boulevard.)
  • Woods Drive (Golf Road to Old Orchard Road)

Cook County Highway Department is Responsible For

  • Church (Linder to Gross Point)
  • Crawford Avenue (Jarvis to Golf)
  • Frontage Roads
  • Harms Road (Old Orchard to North border)
  • Lockwood Avenue (Old Orchard Road to Central Street; Frontage Road to Golf Road)
  • Central Street (Lockwood to Old Glenview Road)
  • Lorel Avenue (9500 block)
  • Long Avenue (9400 block)
  • Foster Street (Long Avenue to Lorel Avenue)
  • Oakton Street (Skokie Boulevard to McCormick)
  • Old Orchard Road (Gross Point to Crawford) - maintained by Evanston
  • Old Orchard Road (Harms to Edens Expressway exit ramp onto WB Old Orchard Road; Lavergne Avenue to Gross Point Road)

The Illinois Department of Transportation is Responsible For

  • Church (Gross Point to McCormick)
  • Crawford Avenue (Golf to Old Orchard)
  • Dempster Street (East to West border) - maintenance by Skokie
  • Golf Road (West border to McCormick Boulevard)
  • Gross Point (Church to Old Orchard)
  • Gross Point (New Gross Point to Oakton)
  • Howard Street  (Lehigh to New Gross Point)
  • Lincoln Ave. (Linder to Jarvis)
  • McCormick (Touhy to Golf)
  • New Gross Point Road (Howard to Gross Point)
  • Niles Center (Main to Dempster)
  • Niles Center (Skokie Boulevard to Church Street)
  • Niles Center / Carpenter (Pratt to Lincoln)
  • Oakton Street (Lehigh to Gross Point)
  • Skokie Boulevard (Jarvis to Central)
  • Touhy (Hamlin Avenue to East border)
  • Touhy (West border to Edens at Lamon Avenue)
  • Old Orchard Road bridge (Edens Expressway exit ramp to Lavergne Avenue)