Berwyn, IL Parking Rules: Dibs & Space Saving (2026)

The Berwyn Code of Ordinances does not use the word dibs, and it never mentions chairs by name. What it does say, in § 480.05(B), is that no person shall stop, stand, park or leave unattended any motor vehicle, or place any barricade, furniture or other obstacle, upon a designated snow route. A lawn chair, table or traffic cone set out to hold a shoveled space is furniture or an obstacle in the ordinary sense of those words, and the section names both.

Two thresholds apply on the routes, and neither depends on a declared emergency. Under (B)(1), the ban applies at each snow accumulation of six inches on Cermak Road, East Avenue, Harlem Avenue, Oak Park Avenue, Ogden Avenue, Pershing Road, Ridgeland Avenue, Riverside Drive, Sixteenth Street, Twenty-Sixth Street, the north side of Stanley Avenue, the south side of Windsor Avenue, and Thirty-First and Thirty-Fourth Streets between Ridgeland and Harlem Avenues. Under (B)(2), Roosevelt Road is covered at two inches. In both cases the ban runs until the removal of snow, from curb to curb, has been completed.

Other streets are covered by (B)(3), which repeats the barricade, furniture or other obstacle language but applies only while a snow emergency is declared and in effect, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. seven days a week, on the even street number side on even days and the odd street number side on odd days. A snow emergency requires 12 inches or more on the ground under the subsection (A) definition. Outside those conditions, the text of § 480.05(B) sets no obstacle ban on a residential street.

Section 480.05(F) gives the Director of Public Works and the Superintendent of Police authority to tow any vehicle violating the section, and subsection (H) authorizes the Director to post signs.