{"id":56940,"date":"2017-04-11T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=56940"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:41:42","slug":"wrigleyvilles-surge-parking-begins-with-cubs-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wrigleyvilles-surge-parking-begins-with-cubs-home-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrigleyville&#8217;s surge parking begins with Cubs home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Wenjing Yang<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">The Chicago Cubs opened their season at home on Monday and the city of Chicago launched its surge parking experiment in Wrigleyville. Parking meter rates will double from $2 to $4 per hour starting two hours before games and events and ending at midnight. The city\u2019s experiment with surge parking affects 1,100 spots near Wrigley Field on game days and other events at the ballpark, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Fans, local businesses and residents shared their opinions before the home opener.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n[vimeo 212656627 w=640 h=360]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Wirgley Field bleacher gate. (Wenjing Yang\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wenjing Yang The Chicago Cubs opened their season at home on Monday and the city of Chicago launched its surge parking experiment in Wrigleyville. Parking meter rates will double from $2 to $4 per hour starting two hours before games and events and ending at midnight. The city\u2019s experiment with surge parking affects 1,100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":56949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2017"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wrigleyville&#039;s surge parking begins with Cubs home opener - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wrigleyvilles-surge-parking-begins-with-cubs-home-opener\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wrigleyville&#039;s surge parking begins with Cubs home opener - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Wenjing Yang The Chicago Cubs opened their season at home on Monday and the city of Chicago launched its surge parking experiment in Wrigleyville. 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