Evanston, IL Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Evanston does not impose a citywide overnight parking ban. Its overnight restriction is a permit-only district written into Schedule XXII of the traffic code, City Code § 10-11-22. Subsection (B) creates District E-2, where parking on the streets and public ways of the district is prohibited from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., daily, for every vehicle that does not bear a valid permit for the district. The word daily matters: Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are inside the window, so the restriction runs for twelve hours every night of the year.

The schedule lists 14 street segments. They are Barton Avenue (both sides, from the alley north of Howard Street to the CTA right-of-way), Brummel Avenue (north side from Ridge Avenue to the alley west of it, and both sides from the west alley of Ridge Avenue to Barton Avenue), Brummel Street (both sides, Ridge Avenue east to the Metra tracks), Callan Avenue (west side, from the alley north of Howard Street to the dead end, and west side from Mulford Street north to the CTA), Case Place (south side, Callan Avenue east to the Metra tracks), Clyde Avenue (both sides, from the alley north of Howard Street to Brummel Street), Custer Avenue (both sides, alley north of Howard Street to the CTA tracks), Dobson Street (both sides, Ridge Avenue to Custer Avenue, and both sides from Ridge Avenue west to the dead end west of Barton Avenue), Elmwood Avenue (both sides, alley north of Howard Street to the dead end) and Mulford Street (south side from Custer Avenue east to Callan Avenue, and both sides from Callan Avenue east to the Metra tracks). Because several entries cover only one side of a street, the side listed in the schedule controls where the restriction applies.

The schedule says it operates in accordance with Subsection 10-4-5-2(C). That subsection lets the City Manager or a designee, with the consent of the City Council, designate streets as Evanston resident only parking districts, requires the streets to meet the criteria for residents only districts in Subsection (B), and names the identifier for eligible vehicles: a valid Evanston vehicle license issued under Section 10-8-1. Streets so designated are listed in Schedule XXII, which is why a street not printed there carries no E-2 restriction.

Permits for District E-2 are available to two groups only: residents with a legal address on the streets or portions of streets listed in the schedule, and residents with a legal address on Ridge Avenue between Howard Street and Mulford Street. Ridge Avenue is not itself a restricted street in the E-2 table, but its residents can still buy the permit. Evanston runs two other resident-only districts in the same section, and they are not overnight rules: District E-1 applies from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, and District E-3 applies from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. District E-2 is the only one whose hours cover the night.